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Forgot to update after last week.

I was handed two new kids 5 minutes before the game because my team has been short players ever since the session started. Apparently it irritated someone that I was using a "ringer" from another team so we'd have enough to play. Nevermind that the ringer is the 5 year old cousin (with very limited skills)
of one of my players.

Anyway, we played the game. It was pretty uneventful. The teamwork has really broken down because we don't have the same players from week to week but they're still having fun. Except for Lil Lookout. He asked before the game how well he has to do so he can move up to the next age group after this session. I told him that he had to play like he belonged with the older kids and work hard even when he wasn't in the mood.

He scored a first half hattrick for his club team. Then he turned around and scored a hattrick for another club team that was short players right after his game. Then he turned around scored 6 in his rec league game. So 12 points scored in almost 3 hours of soccer in one morning. It looked like he was having fun.

The best moment of the whole morning wasn't a goal, but an awesome passing move he and J pulled off. LL was playing out on the left wing when he received the ball about 10 yards from the goal. He had already scored twice from there so the defenders charged at him and the keeper moved to that side of the box. Lil Lookout started to dribble really slow but wasn't doing much. At the same time J started sprinting down the right side where noone was paying any attention to him. LL stayed calm and let the defenders get right to him before he split the two defenders with a perfectly weighted pass that caught J in stride. J just stuck his foot out and let the ball bounce into the far side of the net before the keeper even realized what was happening. Awesome awesome play.