Woohoo! 9 games down, 1 to go. The current record is 8-0-1.
I knew before showing up that we could chalk this past game as a win. The team has two stars on it, both prominent members of their respective club teams. Unfortunately, someone wasn't using their thinking cap when they put those two boys on the same team. They are both selfish players who instinctively want to go it alone and think the team is only a tool to get the ball back to them. Having one player like that is sad. Having two is destructive. They now quite visible can't stand eachother. They have a decent supporting cast but no unit cohesiveness.
Lil Lookout had a really tough club game immediately following the rec game and more importantly he had a new pair of goalie gloves he wanted to try so he started in the goal. From the beginning I put B, C, and C on left foot shots and assists. They attacked aggressively from the first whistle. Because of the shooting restrictions they were taking lots of shots but nothing was falling so the game stayed 0-0 for awhile. LL was getting bored in the goal without getting even a touch on the ball in the first 5 minutes when K, a midfielder was getting pressured with the ball and she did exactly what she always does under pressure and passes to LL. It was a perfectly executed backpass, nice and smooth, no bumps as it rolled across the turf to LL who was waiting to crush the ball. With a set up like that he will usually send the ball about 2/3 the length of the field before it bounces. He hit the sweet spot and really got under that ball. Unfortunately a player from the other team had charged the ball down in and jumped in the air to block the ball. He was successful, unfortunately he blocked it with his nose before crashing to the turf in a bloody crying heap. LL was horrified. I could tell because I heard him say "OH SHIT!"
we had a talk about proper language for a 6 year old later. He instantly ran off the field for ice while the coaches went to pick up the pieces.
The other team had no subs so they played the rest of the game a player short so I pulled one of our kids off the field to even the sides up. Play resumed, but the other team was really just going through the motions at that point. My kids won 7-3 but spent more time working on passing than really attacking hard.
One more week to go then I lose two of my most mature players to the next age group up.