The Start of Soccer Season-2012

Well, soccer games started today for the Fall season.  Madison had a 9:00 game, and Luke had a 10:00 game. Alex doesn't start his games until next week.

 

Madison is thrilled to be in an all-girl league.  Sporting her pink and green jersey, she is on "The Lady Panters" this year.  Today, she played goalie and defense (fullback).  She is very good at defense and does a great job of getting that ball away from the goal.  She kicked several away today.

 Her coach is really great too and is just a positive female role model for the girls.

Ready for the game in the goalie box...she allowed one goal, but she stopped several others.

Second half on defense- Going after it

 

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Madison's team lost, 2-1, but they had a great game.  The girls played well, and hey, that's all that matters.

Switching gears, we quickly moved from Madison's game to Luke's game.  This week, they were back to back, but I have several weeks where I have two or three games at the same time (and wouldn't you know it, that Edward is out of town some of those weeks!).  Luke is playing on "The Fire" in the 5-6 year old league.  He had a FANTASTIC game and is an AMAZING player. Seriously, he was awesome.  Just about every parent said something about his good game.  Luke definitely seems to be good at anything he does.  I sure hope he sticks with soccer as the years pass because he's really, really good.

 Luke started at goalie.  He LOVES playing goalie (what is it with goalie in our family??).  Anyways, I loved this picture.  "No one is getting into my goal," is the look of it.  Oh, and no one got past Luke.  He kept EVERYTHING out of the goal.

The second part of the game, Luke was on offense. I don't know where he played better because he played so well everywhere. 

Meanwhile, Madison seemed to have her own soccer clinic going with the little kids.  She was SO sweet with these little boys, friends of Alex's from preschool.  She was playing so nicely with them and showing them how to kick. They LOVED her and kept following her around like little ducklings.

Back to the game...Luke just dominated the field.

Luke enjoyed playing today, especially since the team they played against had two of his friends on it, twins from preschool.  They go to a different elementary school, due to being a road over from us, so he doesn't see them everyday.  He was so excited this morning to "play Jacob and Thomas" and had a great time seeing them today.  Oh, Luke's team won...I don't even know what the score ended up being, but all that matters is Luke had fun.

Little Man Alex watched, actually cried, for the games today.  He was hot and just wanted to go home.  So, what better to do than to cry and whine about it?  I think he'll be in a much better mood next week when his games start.