Bailey Update: Splint is off….back to normal puppy antics!
Game 3: The team, as I set it up, has ten players. I know on Saturday, due to injuries and the start of hunting season, that I’m down to seven. On Sunday I will be down to five! For Sunday I grab two other kids from Matthew’s team that I’ve never coached but for both days I turn to my favorite reserve, Cpher.
Cpher, in his usual fashion, was nervous and hoped that we were playing a weak team. Told him that if I was wrong I wouldn’t play him much at all….and it turns out on Saturday the team was worse than I expected. Cpher gets a hat trick(!!!!) and we win 14-2.
Video by clicking on the first picture below:
(by no means is Christopher any kind of real soccer player at this point….he hung out up front and was the recipient of some great passes. But, that being said, there are some kids on these fields who pay a lot of money for soccer that can’t convert as well as he did, especially on this first goal)
(Cpher gets credit for this goal in the facility’s book but any official scorer would call it an own goal…the pass from Jackson to Cpher is deflected by the guy in the camo pants into the goal)
(Matthew got a goal as well…..like most games, Matthew is more impressed with some of his assists than the goal. And he had some sweet assists today..none to his brother though….and we offered cash money if he made that happen. Had to apologize for that afterwards because he certainly passed up some opportunities trying to do that)
(Cpher’s third goal. Again, it’s a great pass from Cole whom you can’t see off to the left, but, there are a lot of kids who can’t convert this. And Cpher hit it with his left foot!)
(this burst of offense produced this strange looking never-will-happen-again leaderboard)
Game 4: Beat another LSC team 9-2. Both Cpher and Matthew had a goal; Cpher scored early and, having seen the leaderboard above, taunted Matthew that he had pulled ahead of him! Matthew drilled a few shots directly at the goalie before converting later on……
