Ah, we’re back in the spring sports swing of things. I still need to post an update on Matthew (it’s half-written over in the draft folder) and we’ll get that done soon.
Saturday: The U10 soccer team with Christopher and Matthew starts the season with a 3-game tournament (invitational might be a better word). A glance at the schedule shows that we’ll probably be ok in the first game but chance are we’re going to get hammered in games 2 and 3.
Game 1: We beat a team from Marshall 2-1. The weather is borderline horrible…some rain, but, the 2nd half wasn’t so bad and we actually see the sun for a few seconds. We didn’t score much (a theme with this group…we’ve never scored more than three goals in a game yet), but, pretty much dominated the play…the one Marshall goal was on a ball misplayed by our goalie (went right through his hands and legs)…
Game 2: I don’t mind playing against teams that are parent-coached. I do mind when we end up against teams where the parents are paying for the professional coaching…like this game. We lost 10-1 and it wasn’t that close. We were one player short in game one, in game two we were also missing Matthew who was off at one of his TNT friends birthday party. Having Matthew would have helped, but, wouldn’t have changed much. They were just way better than us.
Game 3: Same story as above, except now we’re missing three kids (another one of my better players is gone). It’s now a pouring rain and you can tell the kids just want this to be over……We lost 9-1.
I told the kids, and parents, beforehand that I knew Games 2 and 3 would be ugly, but, that they would help to figure out what we needed to work on and remind everyone that simple mistakes can turn into bad things. We hadn’t played as a team since November and that wasn’t going to help either. I’m glad we came out and dominated the team we were about even with and we’ll have a full list of things to work on in practice this week.Sunday:
