Milton Chrysler Dodge 5
Chudleighs 3
We were close. Our team played an amazing game and as a coach into his second game of his short career, I couldnt be prouder of our group.
Last practice we worked on kicking the ball past the player and running fast to catch the ball. Tonight, they all did a great job doing that. They were even passing the balls to open players.
Anthony scored the first goal of his season as well early in the first half and when he did, I realized how high I could jump. The look on his face when he scored it was priceless and it took me awhile to make sure the cleets on my soccer shoes were firmly to the ground.
Nathan was our first half goalie and he did a great job keeping us in the game with his diving catches. We were tied 2-2 going into half time and it looked like they remembered quite a bit of what we practiced on Tuesday.
It went back and forth for the second half with the other team getting some close goals and they worked really hard keeping the ball in our end. A great job by that team as well. Matthew on our team is a fast runner and a good kicker too and he scored our teams other 2 goals.
The funniest thing happened though near the end of the game. Some of the players were asking what the score was and I said, its close but theyre winning by 2 goals…we need to see if we can get one more goal really quick.
Jordan, our second half goalie, yells up to me … “COACH…we’re still having fun! Isnt that what you told us…have fun?”
Kids blow me away with some of the things they say. That’s all they wanted to do was have fun, and who cares what the score is. Im still blown away.