Soccer video highlights from Week 5.

I finally got some video of the kids playing soccer a couple of weeks ago and although I haven't found a decent editing program at least you can see the kids in action a little bit.



Maddux and his team continued their domination of the U6 soccer league by winning 12 - 2. Maddux scored 5 goals but none was more impressive than the coast to coast score in which he dribbled the ball up the field, with his left foot, then passed it to his right, while the defender kept going left, and kicked it in the goal. Maddux's coach has been working with Maddux on his left foot and just about jumped out of his shoes with excitement after that goal. He was so proud of Maddux and was very happy. He does a really good job with the boys and really loves to coach. In the video you will notice that Maddux is very aggressive and in almost every play. There are even a couple of times you will see him catch the other player trying to score and take the ball away.



Brooklyn's team struggled as they played the top team in her league. They haven't lost a game yet and have a couple of really good girls. They have 2 girls in particular who are very aggressive and go after the ball with little or no regard to the other girls. They use their body, push around and throw elbows to keep the defenders away. Most girls are not very aggressive at 7 so when the refs let that go there really isn't anything you can do about it. I got mad because on one particular play one of our girls got in there and took the ball away and the ref called a tripping foul. I couldn't believe that after letting all the other stuff go he called that foul. It was unbelievable. Anyway they ended up losing 4 - 0 and are still looking for their first win. As you will see in the video of Brooklyn she is very content on just running around the field and kicking the ball every once in awhile. She did play goalie the first quarter and did not let anything by her. She can be aggressive when playing their but has not developed the offensive desire at all yet. Her coaches are still waiting for that to come around.

Last week the games were rained out and I am still not sure why. Sure it did rain most of Friday but the fields were not that bad and Saturday was beautiful. It is funny because two weeks prior they let the kids play in the pouring rain but then canceled last weeks. I don't know when they think they are going to make these games up but they are quickly running out of time and we are now up to 2 games that have now been canceled. The weather is getting colder and winter is just around the corner. Soccer in the snow could be fun. Well hopefully we will get the games in this weekend and I will have some more pictures and video. We are hoping to get Brooklyn's team a couple of wins before the season ends.