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Off the Wall Walking on to artificial turf in an arena that looks uncannily like it was meant to have 250-pound ice skaters with five foot sticks chasing a black disc around was somewhat different compared to walking onto a high school soccer field. My first indoor soccer game was at five o’clock on a Tuesday evening after school. The anticipation building up to this occasion was worse than waiting to open your presents on Christmas morning; and it was finally time to play. The first thing that I noticed as I strutted onto the field was the size of the goals and how they were built. I had been told by a friend that had played indoor soccer the year before that they were eight-feet by eight-feet, but looking at them from forty yards away made them seem like aiming for a shoebox. The fact that the goals were made flush with the walls seemed like it would make the game more interesting. I glanced a couple of times across the field at the opposing team as I walked into the bench-area and they didn’t look much different from us, just a little older. The entrance to the field from the bench area was just like that of a hockey rink in that it was a low-wall with a small door leading onto the field. The fact that we didnâ