soccer

The soccer session has just finished. It has been an eventful year. We would have not been able to do it without the help of family and friends. Thank you to all those that have helped us out, especially when Benjamin was born. We have watched the kids improve in their soccer skills. Isiah has become quite a good goalie, saving many goals. Juliet has managed to play games without falling on the ground and crying. She showed that she has potential to be a great player if she puts her mind to it. She is not afraid to tackle the boys who have the all. She even managed to score a goal. Rory managed to prove to his coach on the last game that he is a defender. He had a chance to get a goal but boot it over the goals instead. Charles participated in development squad with his Dad as the coach. Damien was the development squad coach and the Chairman of the club.

These are some of the thoughts from the kids regarding the soccer season:

 Isiah: Saving goals and having another player get angry at me for letting a goal in. Fun. It is fun being a defender.

Isiah and Mario (U9 coach)

Juliet:Sad the season ended. I loved it. I'm going to miss soccer. I can't wait until next year to play soccer.

Juliet with her trophy

Rory: Awesome

Rory collecting his trophy from his coach, Nick,
and assistant coach, Peter.

Charles: I like kicking the ball into the goals.

Charles with his certificate and medal for
participating in development squad

Anabelle: I want a lolly pop. (I shouldn't have asked her with a lolly pop in my mouth)

Benjamin: Is just happy he can sleep in his bed on Saturday mornings.

As for Damien and myself, we are happy to have sometime on a Saturday to do work around the home (The garden is in desperate need of attention and we need to put the vege garden in). We are also looking forward to not needing to go out on Tuesday and Thursday evening for practise.

Local Newspaper

We have recently had a lot of rain in Adelaide and as a result some of the soccer pitches have been too wet for playing on. Damien is try to get the council to do something about the drainage on the pitches so that it is safer for the children. Damien and some of our kids had a photo in the local newspaper about this issue.

Here is the photo.
If you want to look at the article here is the link: http://news-review-messenger.whereilive.com.au/news/story/goal-to-improve-pitches/

Juliet's goal

We are nearing the end of the soccer season. I look forward to having Saturdays to do things and Damien looks forward to sleeping in. We have had some exciting times watching Rory, Isiah and Juliet play their games on Saturdays. But I wont be missing the cold nights of practise and the games played in the rain.

Last week the boys both had no games and we did think about Juliet missing her game so we could go to the show. when we decided she would play her game we had problems with getting her ready for her game (she is a shocker to get ready for most things). Well she was very happy that she did make it. In the second half of the game Juliet scored her first goal. Well done Juliet.

Summer Soccer

Well the soccer season finished at the beginning of September. We had decided to have our Saturdays back to do things around the home. The next thing I know Isiah's coach was putting a futsal team together. He asked Damien if Isiah could play and of course Damien said yes. So our Saturday mornings are busy again. For those of you who don't know what futsal is, it is an indoor version of soccer. His first game he was the goalie. He impressed me, he stopped well over a dozen goals. From memory the other team only got 5 goals which I think is pretty good as he doesn't play goalie often. One of the other mums said we should probably keep him in there.

Rory was invited to play indoor soccer (different rules to futsal)with some school friends. So of course we ended up saying yes. He plays Monday nights in Modbury. His first game was last week. It was very exciting as Rory scored his first goal. He has been playing soccer for 4 years and has never scored a goal as he is more a defender than an attacker.

On top of futsal and indoor soccer Rory, Isiah and Juliet play/practise 5-a-side soccer on Wednesday evenings. I think we are more busy now with soccer than we were during soccer season. I can only imagine what it will be like when Charles gets bigger.