Matthew’s soccer team hits the indoor fields again this weekend for 3 games in a “College Showcase”. This is code words for a tournament that may have some low level college coaches who will spend no time looking at your kid. But whatever.
This post will take some time since I need (or want) to explain where Matthew is at right now.
Chill: We’ve moved on from our club soccer home for the last 4(?) years. How hard is it to run a soccer club and pay your coaches on time? Apparently, it’s a very hard task - we’ve now left two clubs because of it.
So, the choice came down to driving 45 minutes plus (each way) for practice and games or stay closer to home and be on a very good Rush Lansing team that, convienently, needed a center back. And we were going to go tryout out for the other club, but, it turned out the first tryout was on the first day of finals and I just couldn’t stomach Matthew being in the car for 90 minutes when he really need to study. So that was that.
The Rush Lansing team MIGHT be the best team that Matthew has ever been on - there’s a whole birth year switch that happened that I’m not going to get into here - but the team has 4 or 5 kids who can score, a decent goalie, and now with the 3 kids that came over from Chill, a solid defense and an improved midfield. And the results to date show that. Went to Indianapolis in November and went 2-0-1 against some very high-level teams.
So, optimism is high for the coming season. The ‘drama’ on the team is a little hard to deal with - maybe I’ll go into that more later.
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