It's Going to Be an Interesting Summer

[przed]

Got a call today from the soccer club Ros plays with. Looks like they took me up on my offer and I'm going to be coaching her U6 soccer team.

Yikes.

I've been an unofficial assistant coach the last couple of years--meaning I've done the player rotation and led the team when the coach is on vacation--but this year I'll be handling a team all on my own. At least there are referees this year.

Ros is happy. (She's been encouraging me to volunteer for the last two years.) I'm slightly terrified.

Comments

[przed.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I've been toying with doing it for a while. (I played footie with a group of friends every Sunday for years and years.) It's always been the matter of lack of time that kept me from doing it. That, and the fact that coaching 4 year olds at footie really is like herding cats. I"m hoping the 5/6 age group will be slightly less likely to play in mud/pick flowers/stare at the sky/clump onto the ball whilst on the field. ;-)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Well, that sounds like fun too. :D

[przed.livejournal.com]

My favourite coaching moment the first year was the game I coached in a raging rain storm. (There was no thunder/lightning so we couldn't call it.) I was running down the field, trying to keep the kids concentrating on the ball, turned around, and one of the girls had managed to coat herself entirely in mud. On purpose. Then she ran forward and got me with her very muddy hands. At least her mum was understanding. Apparently she did that sort of thing all the time.