First games of the Fall Recreation League soccer today and Alex had two games while Sam just had the 1 game. Alex lost the first game 3-1 but won the second by a landslide as Alex had 3 goals and Matt had 2 goals. Not only that, but he played Zac and Jeremy’s team. They were missing a couple of players and had a stand-in goalie which didn’t help their cause any. Zac did school Alex on several plays and then one of the girls schooled Alex as well. Alex’s defense was that she played high school ball at Connely… the rest of the boys weren’t buying that though. Alex also got tackled by one of the bigger girls on the other team. 🙂
Sam played most of the first half as midfielder and played pretty well. He made a couple of stops and made a couple of good passes. Sam did have a couple of ‘air kicks’ but he did hustle most of the half. The reason dad almost had a heart attack was because they played Sam at Keeper (that’s the goalie for all of the non-soccer people) the 2nd half. Sam did let one get by him which proved to be the winning goal but it was a pretty good shot from close range. Luckily he didn’t have any other chances for saves, but he did have a goal kick which he turned into a pretty nice pass. Quote of the day – Dad: “where you scared,” Sam: “Yes,” Dad: “why were you scared,” Sam: “I was afraid the ball might hit me,” ….. after some discussion, Dad: “why else were you afraid?” Sam: “I thought I might get dirty.” 🙂
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