Life as a Soccer coach

Is quite fun.. I have the 10 and under's this year and it is very nice having kids predisposed to having soccer skills as opposed to previous years where at least a third of the team had never played at all. We end up playing every weekend (except Labor Day) till the end of October and practice once a week as well. So it is an investment in time for the kids and myself but it is tons of fun.

Our opposing team for the first game of the year today was able to field only 5 players. So instead of forfeiting which they should have done Lansingburg Soccer in their infinite wisdom decided that they should fill the team with players from other teams. Now in of itself this is a good thing, the kids get to play. But practically speaking the kids who volunteer to play an extra game are by their very nature better than average. The practical upshot was we played what was the equivalent of an all star team this week and held our own 2-3.

Over half of our team had not actually practiced before this week due to vacations and the such. But the parents seemed very happy with the outcome especially after I told them of how the opposing team was weighted.

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