SFS Contest Picture of the Day Week 28

Hello, greetings to you my amazing friends. Trusting God y'all are doing good? By the special grace of God, I'm also doing good and I'm happy to be participating in this contest, "picture of the day".

This is me and my homies during our football training on Easter Monday this. From the left, I'm the one in yellow jersey shirt and a black short sitting on the ground. This is a very rare moment for all of us as we only have time to meet together like this during festivities. That is the only time we travel back home to celebrate with our family and friends and each time such opportunity presents itself, we ensure we grasp it with both hands.

The week preceding to Easter is called the Holy week. The week often begins with the palm Sunday celebration which marks the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem. It includes the Easter tridum which are the last days of Lent before Easter.
The Easter tridum include the Holy Thursday which commemorates the institution of the holy Eucharist, the good Friday; a day in which Christ was crucified and lastly, the Holy Saturday which commemorates the night before Christ resurrection. Christians go to church on Saturday evening to observe the eve of Christ's resurrection which is on Sunday.

After church on Sunday, I had a lot of places to visit. Friends whom I haven't seen in a long while, some relatives, old school mates and I also had the opportunity to visit my maternal grand mother who is the only surviving grandparent I've got.

During this period of holiday, the day that interest me most is the Easter Monday, the day we had our football training. Growing up, football has been one sport I couldn't do without. Everyday, I kept looking forward to 4pm when we'll be meeting for our daily football training session. I played football with passion back then. I never thought I couldn't survive a day without football. But then, destiny had a different plan for me. Here I am, staying for close to a year without hitting the football pitch. Such is life.

I used to play both forward right and forward left, depending on how the coach wants the match to go and also the formation of the game. I stopped playing forward in the year 2009 when I had a bad tackle from my opponent which left me with a fracture on my right ankle. I was off the pitch for about 14 months. Even after returning, I had to do minor training for a couple of months before I was give some little play time on the pitch. After sometimes, I was converted to central back and that's the position I've been playing ever since.

I decided to showcase my football skills with my friends when we met on Easter Monday. I never thought I'll be able to play past 15 minutes because the last time I played was June last year cos of my tight schedules but I was rather surprised that I played for full 1 hour.

But guys, I didn't feel much of the impact of play that very day but twas the next day. All my body aches, my laps hurts, my knees and ankles hurt, like virtually every joint and muscle in my body hurts.
I'm sure this was because it's been a while I last trained.

Guys, how often do you exercise? Please make out time to engage in physical exercises as that helps a lot.

I'm inviting my friends @vickyson @ashley-p and @owulama to also participate in this contest.

CC: @ashkhan