Victory for Inga!

The day after a 4-day soccer tournament, Inga's team had the most important game of their season: a game that would decide if they were moving up into the regional division. They were playing against Grasse. They lost to Grasse 2-0 last week, which meant they had to defeat Grasse by at least 3 points in order to move up a level (and Grasse would move thus be downgraded). So each team was highly motivated to win, or in Grasse's case, to not lose by a 3-point margin).

It was a nail-biter. Inga was put in defense at the beginning and there was not much action. Sometime during the first half, the coach finally put her back in forward. She soon did a beautiful assist and another striker scored the first goal!

The second half arrives. Within 5 minutes, Inga scores a beautiful goal, running past all the defenders and putting it in easily. I was already there with Eric and my brother, but the other kids were en route. I was so sad they missed it, and I didn't film it either!

Inga's team continued to dominate the field and, after the whole family arrived, she scored again! This time I caught it, although with some jumping around :)

Inga had several other shots on goal that she missed, but still the game ended 3-0, meaning Cavigal is moving up divisions. We were all so thrilled. Eric feels vindicated for all of his advocacy trying to keep Inga as an attacking player.

What else happened today? I had my usual walk to Cimiez and back in the morning. Eric had one of his Wabash students over for dinner (he's been doing a study abroad since December in Aix). We also went on a post-dinner walk.