Footie: Game Sixteen

[przed]

Here it is, the last regular season footie post of the year.

It was a bit hot and humid for the game, but our team still had lots of energy, and we had eleven kids turn up, which is just enough for two full lines. And the girls were fantastic!

We were playing the second team in the standings, who also happened to be the team that kicked our goalie in the makeup game I missed. (I'm not positive, but I think their coach was the bloke who was in charge of the really nasty team who kept trying to take our girls out last year. And our head coach showed up halfway through the game to give him a talking to for letting one of his parents bully a ref into changing a score earlier in the season.) They had some good players (including our best player from last year's team) but our girls really stepped up their playing and kept the ball in their end for a majority of the game.

The final score was 0 - 4 for us, and it was really heartening to me that our four goals were scored by four different girls. It's also been awesome watching one of our girls who was really not into the game at the start of the season become an absolute tiger in defence. And Ros had another good game, getting stuck in and making some good plays in front of the net.

We've finished the season in the number one slot, which is totally down to the girls playing their hearts out. And now we've just got the cup weekend in two weeks before soccer is done for another year.

Comments

[sarren.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, well done your mad coaching skills - and the girls' efforts too of course *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

My mad coaching skills mostly consist of making sure everyone's shoelaces are tied and they know which goal to score on. *g*

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Both of things are very important, to be fair :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

True. You don't want to trip over your shoelaces as you score an own goal. *g*

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

\o/ \o/ \o/

I feel a sort of proprietorial interest at one - two? - remove(s), after reading your updates for a couple of years and then actually being present - whee! - at one of these games. I thoroughly enjoyed it all, and I loved seeing lots of small girls belting down the field after the ball with such determination, and the goalie - and the occasional determined outlier - standing on the defence line and waiting for the ball to come back.

I don't know: maybe it is like this here in the UK? But if it is, I haven't seen it. Congratulations to Ros, and I hope all the team are back next year, breathing fire!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I do love coaching the girls, and seeing them play. And it was lovely to have you along to watch. We are definitely proud of them.

I do hope that Canadian/North American footie isn't an anomaly, and that girls in the UK have chances to play as well, but I have no idea if it's the case.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Okay, of course I had to poke around. And it turns out there's a Women's branch of the FA, and a Women's Premiere League, and girls' teams from U9 up.

http://www.thefa.com/womens-girls-football