Thursday, September 13, 2007

Soccer ideology

The people who run the local soccer program are connected deep with some national league that governs this sort of thing.  Apparently, what I had to say about being a five-year-old jock is all wrong.  Soccer at this age is all about being an individual player. According to the director of our program, in some weird grok there on the field with all the parents, they won't even learn to pass until they're eight, and even then they will only pass to their friends.  So, I say to BB, go for it, dude, you're the best and you should just lay waste.  Of course, he doesn't really want to be this individual, but when I saw him make a goal the other night and run back up the field with his hands high in the air, I could tell that ringing in his ears was Gooooooaaaaaalllllll . . . .

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