Soccer started a couple of weeks ago, We decided to go back to the West Valley league this season instead of doing the Taylorsville league like last season. I forgot to bring my camera to the first two games. I remembered this last Saturday and we got some good pictures of Josh and Tyler playing with their soccer teams.
I thought after last season that I wasn't going to put Josh in soccer this season, but he said he really wanted to play. He goofed off way too much last season and didn't always want to play and that made it really frustrating to watch. So I told him if he played this season he had to play and not just goof off.
So far this season Josh has done really well. He likes to play and doesn't complain when it's his turn to go in and play. If anything he says he doesn't want to go out and take a break, he wants to keep playing. It does help that Josh is the biggest on his team and has the most experience so he tends to dominate in every game. He is pretty good about going to taking the ball and using his good ball control to take the ball down the field and scoring.
He scored four points the first game, three or four the second game, and at least that this last game. I stop keeping count and just try and enjoy how happy he gets after he scores a goal and he runs back towards Tony (who is his coach) and gives him a big hug and/or high five. Then Josh also likes to run over to me and give me a high five. I sometimes feel bad that he is the one that is always scoring and so I try to tell him to let the other kids try too, but at four that is a hard thing to do.
Tyler is the opposite of Josh this season. Tyler has now moved up to the 7-9 year old group making him one of the smallest on his team and the youngest. I think that it bothered him a little during the first practice, but has seemed a lot better since.
I am not sure how much experience some of the other kids have, but some don't seem to have much at all. Tyler has better ball control then a lot of the other kids and does really good to not let the size of the kid intimidate him from going after the ball.
They play on a bigger field and have all 11 players playing in this group. They have had to learn more about offense and defense and positional soccer. They still seem to bunch around where ever the ball is, but they are getting better at staying around where they should be depending on their position.
Tyler's couch is pretty good about rotating the kids in all the positions. I really like they all get a turn to try it all and see what they like. Tyler likes it all. He really likes to play goalie and has done it in every game. In the first game he stopped two balls and only let one ball past him. This last game the ball didn't even come close to him and he seemed pretty bored in the goal box.
I am not sure if Tyler really likes to play goalie or if he just really likes to drop kick the ball. Either way, it's a good experience for him. He isn't a super aggressive goalie and Tony and I prefer to see him as a forward since he's got the ball control and speed to score goals. He is doing really good with this new older group and it is fun to see him progressing each week.
One more year and I could have three kids playing soccer at the same time...that should be fun!
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