Your First Goal

[Dr Faustus]

i Know some of us couldnt hit a cows arse with a banjo, but i'm guessing the majority of us have bagged one at some point? i dont agree with rewarding goals etc as kids get older its about the team not the individual

however

the last lot of U8s i set free have played two games now- one lad scored his first goal, and the new City shirt as a reward! I know he wont remember the game, but i know that euphoria will live him forever

its the most wholesome drug, and why i coach

 

mine- playing as CH in the 80s, i wasnt really supposed to pass the halfway line (yep- cheers Ms)- a corner fell to me outside the box when i had a cheeky mooch forward, moved it on to right and boosh... top bins: probably the worst connection ever, but to me it sailed in

Tell us yours:

 

Hilton Lane CP School

Right foot

Outside the box

9 year old???

 

 

should also add i was the fat tall kid who played in net a lot

 

 

[SalCity Biggie]

I have just started coaching my son's basketball team, he has just turned 7, last week was their first game and they got beat 32-0, this week against older kids, they still got beat, but we scored 2 baskets, 1 was a free throw and the other from a real time shot. Our first baskets on the board and the kids were going mental like they had won the league, it was ace. Myself and the parents celebrated like we had won the world cup.

[Leyther_Matt]

Can’t remember my first goal, but my favourite is absolutely scoring from the halfway line against Stretford Vics in U14s

Would love to claim it was a Beckham-esque classy affair, but in reality it was an aimless punt forward on my left leg and I got lucky with a freak bounce over the keeper

[perth_white]

Hardly ever scored. One I do remember and likely my first and only in a game was Crompton Fold first 11 vs second 11. I was right back for the second team but for some reason found myself up near the box, played a 1 2 with the winger and hit it from the edge of the box over the first team keeper. I think the whole overlapping wing back thing was invented in that moment!

[Dr. Feelgood]

How the f... do you remember your first goal ?

In what context ? On the back field playing jumpers for goalposts with 16 a side? Your school team ? Your school house team ? I can't recall my first even then. I recall a number of noteworthy ones across the years but not 'the first'.

I know that as 8 or 9 year old playing on a full sized, usually muddy, pitch with full sized goals and completely unbalanced opponents 10+ scores were common. I felt I'd failed if I not got at least one.

[Duck Egg]

Playing in an under 10s match at Pontins holiday camp. Scored the last goal in a 4-0 win and my dad said "You chipped the keeper like Peter Thompson!"

Don't think I did (was more just a swing my leg at it affair) but I remember buzzing hearing him say that.

[bolty58]

1 hour ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

 

I know that as 8 or 9 year old playing on a full sized, usually muddy, pitch with full sized goals and completely unbalanced opponents 10+ scores were common. I felt I'd failed if I not got at least one.

Loads in the street and on patches of Tonge Moor ground. First goal I can remember in organised football as an 8 year old (ish) for Castle Hill Primary in an absolute mud bath on Castle Hill playing fields against St. Columba's from Hall'i'th'Wood. A crabby 1-0 win by a toe poke from 4 yards out by yours truly.

[Wanderlust]

Pretty sure it wasn't my first but my favourite was in the '60s sliding into a tackle around the halfway line and it flew into the top bins. Would have loved to be able to say it was intentional but I was only thinking of winning the ball. Still it was very satisfying. Dion did a similar one not long ago, the jammy bastard

[Ani]

like others no idea on first, but a few stick in my mind

I scored from my own half playing for Church Road second team on the pitches opposite Moss Bank Park, was raining and did not see it go in. 

First goal I ever scored with proper nets still remember the sound as it hit the net. 
 

2 goals in a 2-1 win to decide the Nab Wood 5 a side Sunday League. First a great team goal running onto a back heal and putting in top corner, second a shot into far bottom corner.

 

 

[Take Hunt Off]

Primary school I was about eight yrs old .The match was all the male pupils in the school divided evenly into two groups & refereed by Ms McIntyre our headmistress (Wanderers fan & hard as nails) Someone smashed the leaden rain soaked casey right into my head & it ballooned into the massive iron structure of the goalposts located behind Victoria Mill on CNR Horwich.Christ I had a headache for about three days , maybe brain damage as well as I have never doubted my football allegiance to BWFC in the sixty four years since then.

Not sure what I had for breakfast though.

 

Edited September 15 by Take Hunt Off
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[Underpants]

Was more of a defender so never really ventured beyond the halfway line. I remember my first game for School. Tonge Moor CP away at Crompton Fold. Played right-back. Won 1-0 and I cleared one off the line. Remember the pitch being like a bowling green. 

Secondary school was a different matter. Went to Sharples and the school team was a closed shop. New players hardly got a sniff. I eventually got in the side because I kept turning up for football practice. Everyone of the players where prime donnas who resented new blood replacing their mates. Fuck 'em, I was good and I should have played more.

[Dr. Feelgood]

1 hour ago, Take Hunt Off said:

Primary school I was about eight yrs old . The match was all the male pupils in the school divided evenly into two groups & refereed by Ms McIntyre our headmistress (Wanderers fan & hard as nails).

Holy Family then. Mary Mac was a family friend & a great lady.

I'm guessing early 1960's.

[FrancisFogarty]

I’ve scored three times on league grounds.
Boundary Park, and Deepdale.
It was when they had the artificial turf and you could hire the ground.

I’m sure there was somewhere else too but I don’t remember where. It might have been twice at Oldham.

[Take Hunt Off]

8 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

Holy Family then. Mary Mac was a family friend & a great lady.

I'm guessing early 1960's.

Yes , 1960 I reckon . She had what they called ‘ character’ back then !

[Cheese]

22 hours ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

How the f... do you remember your first goal ?

Aye. My first goal most likely involved a tennis ball rolling slowly past an asthmatic kid stood between 2 coats on a wet concrete playground, when I was 5. Wish I could go back and see what it felt like though. Bet I was buzzing.

[Dr. Feelgood]

20 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Aye. My first goal most likely involved a tennis ball rolling slowly past an asthmatic kid stood between 2 coats on a wet concrete playground, when I was 5. Wish I could go back and see what it felt like though. Bet I was buzzing.

We played on our back field, on a local park, in the back street. We played jumpers-for-goalposts with whatever number of kids turned up - 4 a side to 16 a side. Mixed age groups & older than me included a very slightly built Paul Mariner and a terrific lad who played 3rd & 4th Division,  Gary Cooper & a lad, Willie Led', who was on Stretford's books but who suffered a bad injury.

Flying keepers, one-touch, two-touch. First to 10, next goal wins. Foul, no-offside. Less than that & we'd play wallie on some poor fckrs gable end. Stay out for ours, till the light went.

In the school yard before 9am, morning & afternoon breaks & the long lunch break. Every day we were there. Later, at big school, more organised house & school teams, plus the same break time yard stuff. There would be a good 8 to 10 games ongoing on the same piece of yard ... yet you never mixed up which was your ball and collisions were rare.

I fckg loved it.

The first goal was probably a toe-bung to make it 7-5 one lunch break when aged about 6 & I have zero recollection. 

[BeeversLeftPeg]

Deans away for Beechfield United back in 1997. Came on as a sub and scored with my first touch. Ball lobbed over the top and i swung my left foot at it, keeper had come out and sailed passed into the empty net.

Playing on full size pitches at 8 years old is a far cry from kids football these days.

[boltonboris]

I don't remember my first goal. Playing from too young an age and headed too many balls and drink too many pints to remember that far back. I remember my sons first goal though. In my first game as a coach. Simply followed up a weak shot that the keeper ballsed up (u8 or not, it was a f*** up) and he just toe bunged it in off the post from about a yard out.

He sprinted the whole length of the pitch celebrating like that Italian in '86.. Marco Tardelli?

That'll (hopefully) live with me forever. I missed my daughters first ever goal. Was on a works do in Rotterdam that weekend and my brother phoned me to tell me when we were queuing for the flight home in Schipol. Almost shed a couple of tears.. One of joy and one of crushing disappointment to have missed it

[boltonboris]

But that rush of seeing the ball hit the net... If you could bottle that feeling and sell it. Wow. Unreal

[Zico]

was playing up top on my debut for Horwich Tigers at Ridgmont, thinking I was around 12 or 13 maybe

had a few speculative efforts from long range (it felt long, it may have only been 10 yards) and eventually one went in

followed up with a second from a corner

remember looking around hoping my old man had seen the goals but he was late, saw him ambling up the hill late on approaching full time

remember following up with another long ranger at Morris Green away

had a good pre-season withm them before finding out I was too old to be registered to play in the regular season

[freds dad]

I don’t remember my first goal but it was either in the back garden when I was 4 or 5 with my dad in goal, he probably dived the wrong or in the playground of Kearsley Mount school. 
 

The goals I remember most are at the Reebok in a charity match after John McGinaly flicked on a corner and I volleyed in from 12 yards or a 6 yard scuffed shot at Wembley in another charity match. 
 

Running round both those stadiums with my shirt over my head and my arms stretched out in aeroplane style are moments I’ll never forget. 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Used to play at left back for the school team- a similar thing with not crossing the half way line.

Did on the odd occasion, and bagged my only goal for the team in the year we won the "league" that year.

[bolty58]

21 hours ago, FrancisFogarty said:

I’ve scored three times on league grounds.
Boundary Park, and Deepdale.
It was when they had the artificial turf and you could hire the ground.

I’m sure there was somewhere else too but I don’t remember where. It might have been twice at Oldham.

Only played American football at Deepdale. Narrow loss for the Braves to the Lancashire Chieftains.

Scored four goals at FIFA's HQ in Zurich though. Hat trick against the Swiss hosts and a shameful equaliser against England.

[Krimzon]

Only ever scored 1 goal . Played for the school team at 8 years old . Was usually a keeper . Scored a Frandsenesque both feet off the ground volley from 6 yards. ran the length of the pitch celebrating . Same week I made my debut for the under 12s cricket team as 11th man not out on 0 . 

Tempus Fugit. 

[meanderson93]

I was shite when I was a kid, got better in my early twenties playing 5 a side, but as a kid I was just crap.

Played for the local team from the ages of about 10 up to 17/18 and managed to score my only goal in the last season we played as a team. I'm left footed so naturally I usually just got stuck at left back and just tried to do my best to stay in front of the winger. Even though I wasn't very good, I always tried hard so I think that's why I managed to stick with it.

This game though, we were 2-0 up, team got shuffled and I ended up on the right wing. Managed to cut inside off the right and beat the left back and just tried to wrap my foot around it from about 20 yards. The ball has almost trickled and spun along the ground into the bottom left corner past the (admittedly not arsed) diving keeper. 

I've wheeled away and seen my best mate about 30 yards away, by the time I've got to him the whole team, including keeper and subs, have mobbed us and going mental. I'll never forget it, one of the defining moments of my childhood. 

Youth football is mint and I think the parents/people that give their time to giving the kids the experience do a phenomenal job, for the most part. 

Can't wait to be involved with my own at some point.