Soccer Night: Game Five
Jun. 18th, 2013 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedIt was another glorious night for soccer: blue skies, and with a temperature Goldilocks would have loved: not too hot; not too cold; just right. And our kids did fabulously. Last week one of our girls led the goals by a long mark; tonight there were lots of contributions by everyone. And we won again! 5 - 3. (Though it should have been 5 - 4, since the ref decided not to count a goal we scored on ourselves.)
Ros is doing pretty well, but she needs to dig in a bit. She's generally very strategic and will hang back only to swoop in when the ball moves towards our goal, but tonight she was mostly just hanging back. And I know she's got it in her. During practice I paired her with our strongest player for some defensive drills--not because I'm some crazy ambitious soccer mom/coach, but just because they happened to be standing beside each other--and she managed to take te ball from her, so I know she can do it when she wants to. Clearly, there needs to be some low stress, kicking the ball around in the park.
Ros is doing pretty well, but she needs to dig in a bit. She's generally very strategic and will hang back only to swoop in when the ball moves towards our goal, but tonight she was mostly just hanging back. And I know she's got it in her. During practice I paired her with our strongest player for some defensive drills--not because I'm some crazy ambitious soccer mom/coach, but just because they happened to be standing beside each other--and she managed to take te ball from her, so I know she can do it when she wants to. Clearly, there needs to be some low stress, kicking the ball around in the park.
