Let The Soccer Begin

Today Tyler and Josh both had their first soccer game of the season with their new league in Taylorsville.  They had practice on Wednesday over at the Elementary by our house and they both enjoyed the practice.  It was good to meet the teams and the other players.
Tyler was the first one to play today.  He played the goalie for the first half of the game and did pretty good.  He didn't let any balls get into the net.  He seemed to like kicking the ball away from the net instead of picking up the ball.  He likes playing goalie and did good.
Tony is coaching both Tyler and Josh's team this year.  Since Tyler team has older kids this league has the coaches stay on the sideline and they can't go on the field.  So it was a little different for Tony to stay on the sideline and try and help from afar.  He is going to have to try and get the kids to learn offense and defense so that they play a little better and they don't all just clump together following the ball.
Tony can go on the field with Josh's team and actually had to coach his team and help coach the other team that we played today because their coach wasn't there.  The little kids are so funny to watch.  Half of them are all kicking at the ball at the same time and the other half are off doing their own thing like looking at the flowers, running in circles, etc.
Josh played pretty good.  He hurt the side of his eye while helping clean the church this morning and he kept re-hurting it from the other children getting physical.  The temperature dropped quite a bit as we waited for Josh's game to start as a storm was coming in.  I think that made it harder for the kids to play and learn the rules.  I hope that the weather is better on Tuesday and that the kids all play a little better.  Welcome soccer season...be good to us!