Soccer Night!

[przed]

Today's score: 4 - 3 for the other lot. But we played a really strong game and we actually leading 1 - 3 for a good chunk of the game. We just had a five minute stretch where one of our less confident goalkeepers was in the net and our defence fell apart completely. But everyone still seems to be having a good time, and they're all coming along, skills-wise. Now I just have to cure them of trying to get the ball from their own teammates.

The Sweetie is taking his duties as bloke in charge of our player rotation very seriously. When I got Ros home from daycare today, he was obsessively going over tonight's line up, trying to sort it so the stronger players were well distributed, and the kids who will wreak havoc of the bad sort on the field together are kept on different lineups. He's so cute when he's organizing things.

Ros continues to be Take That obsessed, bless her. After we got home from the game, I wanted to check the score of the England v. Ukraine game before running off to my acupuncture appointment. (It had been 1 - Nil for England when I left work and then I didn't have time to check the score before we ran off to the soccer field. This resulted in the following exchange.

Me: England won!
Ros: Yay! Does Take That play for England?
Me: Um, no. They just play charity matches, kiddo. They're not that good.
Ros: Oh.

Comments

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad the football's still going well *g* You and Sweetie are probably putting more effort into this than the various Euro managers - in any case I bet your players are better behaved! Since we've won a few Euro matches I fear a lot of people are going to get very over-optimistic about the whole thing.

And very much approve, of course, of Ros' interests!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Between the Sweetie managing the lineup and me trying to find soccer drills that won't degenerate into chaos when run with 12 6-year-olds, we may just be putting more into it than the average Euro manager. *g* I don't know that our players are better behaved, though. I doubt their manager has to chastise the England side for making mud pies on the sidelines.

I don't know that I'm ever optimistic where England's chances at football are concerned. I always support them from afar and wait for them to fail to live up to expectations.

Ros' interests are awesome. I just hope they are still her interests when TT are ready to tour again. (Manchester is the first city in England she can reliably name, followed by London and Sheffield, so she's clearly my daughter. *g*)