40 Degrees, Rain Soaked Soccer Fields, Wind Blowing...

[SPKrazy]

9 am and the whistle blows! It's under 8 (6-7 year olds) soccer! OMG it is too fricking cold for this, but the little guys play their hearts out and are warmly dressed and running all over the sloppy fields. Why the league doesn't cancel when the fields are like this at that age I don't know, but there we were! I'm an assistant coach and mainly coach the defense, we play 6 on 6 on a fairly short field. We have a goalkeeper this year, and play for points despite the fact that it is still considered "recreational league". Our team played fantastically and I'm only prouder everytime I see them play. They all take a knee immediately now when someone gets hurt, they pass the ball to each other and set up shots. They are really a team and it's sooo exciting to watch and be a part of that evolvement :woohoo:

I just wanted to share this with you all. No pics today as it was really overcast and I didn't figure my phone's camera would take good pics.

My son's favorite position: sitting on the side playing with the other kids sitting on the side :rofl: don't ya just love it!

The final outcome of the game was a 2-2 tie! :woohoo:

Some amazing plays from these young future stars of the game!

In my mind they are all already stars! I love this! These guys are my stars for sure :loveya:

Thanks for letting me ramble and if you read this, thanks for letting me share it with you.

SPK

[texanwitch]

1. Congrats on the game.

Why the tie.

[SPKrazy]

3. Ties are just the way the game is played

no overtime and no tiebreakers at this level. Now in tournament play they have special rules for ties.

:shrug:

Thanks

:hi:

[fizzgig]

2. what crummy weather

but i'm glad the kids have a good time. your soccer stories always make me smile.

thanks for sharing them

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

4. It was the crummiest of weather, for sure!

it was cold, wet, and it made me want to stay in bed, but that wasn't allowed! :rofl:


thanks
:hug:

[S n o w b a l l]

5. That's one way to get some discipline!

I could use some of that.

Sounds like you'll have a lot of fun with it and hopefully the weather will start cooperating soon! It's cold and rainy here too and the soccer field I live by is empty this morning.

Have a great weekend Southpaw!

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

6. discipline

or cheapskate league already paid the officials and would have to pay them whether they had games or not :rofl:

oh well it teaches the kids something about showing up no matter up!

:hug:

[Kutjara]

8. Be grateful it's only raining.

My Swedish friends often remind me that, when they were growing up, soccer practice was only cancelled if the temperature got below -21 degrees C. Otherwise, they were out there in their shorts, running around on a field the consistency of reinforced concrete, kicking a ball that felt like it was going to shatter any second.

But that's the Swedes for you: they'd sunbathe in a blizzard.

[SPKrazy]

11. Having grown up where it can get pretty cold

although not playing soccer

I remember playing basketball in shirtsleeves with the sun shining but the temp below 0. The ball didn't bounce right, but we didn't seem to be that cold

:shrug:

[madrchsod]

7. fun is`t it? i coached youth soccer for 20 years

you know there`s one thing i do not miss-really crappy weather.

[SPKrazy]

12. Well that's cool

I'm usually glad for cancellation due to lightning

instead, it just is fricking cold today

[Nicole]

9. Sounds like fun.

NOT!!!:P

Glad you enjoyed the game. I remember those days & do miss them. The cold & rain?, not so much. :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

10. It was fun

and the wind cold and rain were just things to be dealt with

:hi:

[Nicole]

13. Well good .

:hi:

P.S. What does Member of pSc in your sigline mean?

P.S.S. What does INFP M/B in your sigline mean?

[SPKrazy]

14. PS

pSc= shhhhh portishead Secret club
INFP M/B is my Myers Briggs personality type

I know it is looking cluttered, like i'm a collector of .... :shrug:

[Nicole]

15. Ok

Thanks, I would never have guessed those.

[SPKrazy]

18. That's because the one is SECRET!

:rofl:

[Nicole]

23. Well that's a good reason.

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

24. Shhhhh!

I let you in on the secret here, now you are charged with protecting our secrecy as a society.

:evilgrin:

[Nicole]

25. mumssss

the word.

:hide:

[SPKrazy]

28. It's okay...

you don't have to hide

:)
:hide:

[Nicole]

31. I know I don't have to

but I like to. :rofl:

:hide:

[SPKrazy]

32. I'm right behind you...

:D
:hide:

[SPKrazy]

33. mmm

:rofl:

[GenDem]

16. No, Southpaw, thank you

Was just feeling a wee bit of the empty nest syndrome today. Spring always meant Saturdays filled with little league baseball for my boys, and softball and soccer for my daughter, until she discovered volleyball. Mr Gen coached T-Ball through Babe Ruth, and in the earliest days, before my daughter arrived, I happily kept the score book. He also coached youth football for 12 years. I felt like a youth sports widow most of the year, but my kids have all these great childhood memories with their father right there at their side.

Although your conditions were extreme, you will never forget these days, and will miss them terribly when they're over like I was today. The outcome couldn't have been better concluding in a tie. Good for you for being involved.

Thanks again for sharing your wonderful day. :hug:

:-)

[SPKrazy]

17. Thanks!

:hug:

that made me feel good!

:hug:

[QMPMom]

19. Oh my. Sounds like when my son was in U-11s.

It was rainy and cold and the little shits kept winning. Week after week after week. They'd win another one and I'd call my DH from the field and say, "You'll never believe this. They won AGAIN!"

They started when it was freezing cold in April and then at the end of June broke for the Summer.......

THEN they went into Playoffs in September. Where they kept winning and winning and winning. All the way to the freaking near-snowy weather at the end of October.

They DID win the Provincial U-11 Gold Medal Championship but I was so sick of soccer and so damn cold by the end of it all that I ended it the next year.

We put him in Army Cadets instead! Parents were not required to sit and be supportive and cheer while freezing to death with Army Cadets.

(OK,it sounds like I was an uncaring Mama, but my son hated soccer and did his level best to not participate, so yanking him was a blessing to everyone.)

[SPKrazy]

20. ya big meanie

:P

kidding

if he hated it then he wasn't getting anything out of it maybe?

I know that right now my son loves it, but if he didn't, he wouldn't be doing it

:pals:

[Zookeeper]

21. How fun! It sounds like a great morning....

And it's so good of you to devote that time to the kids.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

22. Thanks Zookeeper

I didn't really think I'd like it but I love it!

they are so much fun

:hug:

[EFerrari]

26. My oldest boy was one awesome 7 yr old goalie. And his parents got up

and went to those gawdamm games no matter what because he LOVED them. We coached, we sliced oranges, we made nice with cranky people who didn't. Glory days.

lol

Good for you, SPK!

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

29. thanks!

goooooaaaaaaalllllll!

:hi:

[deadparrot]

27. Aw, that brings back memories.

I don't think we ever started soccer this early (our season was in the fall), but I have distinct memories of being five years old, huddled under old blankets on the sidelines around Thanksgiving.

And damn, that ball stung when it hit you on an uncovered part of your body. x(

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

30. we have two seasons

fall and spring

hey that ball still stings

so does getting your shins kicked with no shin guards by a 7 year old OUCH!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

34. Did any parents beat up the coach or ref?

That seems to be the norm these days!

(kidding - sounds like a good game!)

[SPKrazy]

36. No, and no red or yellow cards this game either

a couple of weeks ago we had a ref that let a kid on the other team push and push and push, and then one of our kids just hauled off and hit him, got a red card, the pushing kid got a yellow. Then he sat out a quarter and came back in and pushed and pushed again.

Some grandparent came to the ref after and scolded him.

The refs have a tough job, and they are kids themselves for the most part.

:shrug:

[bertha katzenengel]

35. Sweet little rant! And it makes me so jealous.

Of me & softball: Those who can, play. Those who can't, coach. But I've never been able to coach, just to offer pointers to teammates. Those pointers always helped a lot. Sigh.

:yourock:, Coach!

[SPKrazy]

37. thanks!

:hi: