Winning!

  After the first 3 weekends of games, we have accumulated 3 wins and are now third in the table. Potsdam is in first with 36 points, followed by Gutersloh with 33 points, and then Cloppenburg with 32 points. Potsdam has another women's team in the first league, so if they finish in first place, they will not move into the first league. The second place team would then get to move up. The top few teams are all pretty close in points so every win is vital. This upcoming weekend we will play the fifth place team, Meppen, at home. Unfortunately I will not be playing because I injured my ankle in the game on Sunday. I jumped up for a header and when I came down, my ankle rolled and all my weight fell onto it. I went out of the game for about 5 minutes while the trainer taped it and then I went back in to finish the game. The next day it was very swollen and I went to get an X-ray at the doctor's office. His diagnosis was an Aussenbandruptur-Sprunggelenk. Which is basically a partially torn ligament in my ankle, but instead of tearing completely down the middle, a tiny piece of bone was torn off. He said I should be able to play again in 4-6 weeks, but I am hoping for only 3 weeks. I am starting physical therapy 3 times a week and icing it whenever I can. Another thing I am doing is rubbing a sport gel on my ankle before I go to sleep at night. In America I had never really used creams for injuries, but here they recommend using it more so than ice. Hopefully it works and I will be back playing in time to play the top teams in the table.

This is a link to the current standings in our league:

http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500676