It was cool to watch my team play yesterday. They are actually learning. I've been working with them in stopping the ball and turning it around. I have one particular player that is trying really hard. He actually stopped the ball yesterday and turned it around. So what I am teaching them is sinking in. It's just taking time.
It was really cold so I'm surprised they did so well. They are learning how to pass the ball and work together as a team it's pretty awesome. I'm very happy that it is actually starting to look like they're learning to play the game. I have no idea what the score was only that they did their best and had as much fun as they could in the freezing cold weather.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
WHERE'S THE GOAL?
I'm baffled. I think one of my players has decided that's it's more fun to kick the ball into the other teams goal, hence helping the other team win. I think the score was 6-4 in favor of the other team. Of the six goals scored only 4 were actually kicked by the other team. I kept telling this child to stop the ball and turn it around. He kicks the ball hard but can't control it. OH boy!
I asked the other coach if he ever wondered what they were thinking, he said that he thinks they're just thinking: follow the ball, follow the ball! It's funny, but sad for the rest of the team, it was a blow to lose because one of their own team mates can't control the ball and is very relaxed about coming to practice. It's not fair to the others that are working so hard.
This week is going to be a better week. It has to be. Bumble ball and all. They definitely look like a hive of bees fighting over the same flower. It's sad. I hope it does improve.
I asked the other coach if he ever wondered what they were thinking, he said that he thinks they're just thinking: follow the ball, follow the ball! It's funny, but sad for the rest of the team, it was a blow to lose because one of their own team mates can't control the ball and is very relaxed about coming to practice. It's not fair to the others that are working so hard.
This week is going to be a better week. It has to be. Bumble ball and all. They definitely look like a hive of bees fighting over the same flower. It's sad. I hope it does improve.
Friday, April 23, 2010
The frustrations of U6 soccer!
With coaching the U6 teams this year the coaches are refereeing the games, so any pictures I get I will post. Hopefully some great parent with take some pictures and send them to me. Things are going okay. Have you ever heard a child say, I don't need to come to practice, I'm already a good player? These kids don't realize that they gain so much more than just learning the game, like learning to play together as a team. I have so many frustrations with this age group. They play in a ball, which is driving me crazy and even when you tell them to spread out and get them to spread out, they end up back together in a ball. Oh ya, they fight their own teammates for the ball. Help! I've forgotten how to reach 5 and 6 year old kids in soccer.
Not to mention if they don't want to do something they lay down in the middle of the field. What's up with that. Yikes! Patience is a virtue right. I've just got to be patient. How much do they really learn their first year and remember? Should I worry that I'm not getting through to them? I'm working with them on gaining control of the ball. I found a new drill called keep away and the kids are teamed up and try to pass the ball to one another to keep it away from the other team. I didn't have a good turn out to practice tonight, but I plan on doing it again.
One of the dad's gave me a good idea to keep them apart, to tie a rope between the kids and there can't be any slack in the rope it has to be tight. I didn't get to try this today but will on Monday for practice. I'm hopeful that this will help them learn to leave space between each other. I don't remember having this big of a problem with the first team of U6 kids I taught. I do remember them doing cartwheels during the game and running after butterflies and watching airplanes flying over. I guess it's normal but frustrating.
One other thing at our game we even had kids talking smack to each other. We had a nice talk about sportsmanship. I was totally blown way that they would do that at this age. We have a game on Saturday hopefully things will be better.
Not to mention if they don't want to do something they lay down in the middle of the field. What's up with that. Yikes! Patience is a virtue right. I've just got to be patient. How much do they really learn their first year and remember? Should I worry that I'm not getting through to them? I'm working with them on gaining control of the ball. I found a new drill called keep away and the kids are teamed up and try to pass the ball to one another to keep it away from the other team. I didn't have a good turn out to practice tonight, but I plan on doing it again.
One of the dad's gave me a good idea to keep them apart, to tie a rope between the kids and there can't be any slack in the rope it has to be tight. I didn't get to try this today but will on Monday for practice. I'm hopeful that this will help them learn to leave space between each other. I don't remember having this big of a problem with the first team of U6 kids I taught. I do remember them doing cartwheels during the game and running after butterflies and watching airplanes flying over. I guess it's normal but frustrating.
One other thing at our game we even had kids talking smack to each other. We had a nice talk about sportsmanship. I was totally blown way that they would do that at this age. We have a game on Saturday hopefully things will be better.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Who ordered the snow anyway?
Okay so the weather wasn't that great on Thursday, most of the kids were going to be gone for Spring Break weekend, we ended up doing soccer practice in the snow. It was very wet and cold. Needless to say, they could all control the ball because the ball wouldn't roll very far. It was fun and at least the ones that came prepared for the cold weather still had fun.
Our second practice on Saturday was better it was actually warm enough that you just needed a jacket. Of course, that's when the kids think they don't need them anymore.
Dalton and Caitlin were both throwing up on Sunday so everyone stayed home Sunday and Monday, trying not to spread the germs. Now Jim is sick on his birthday. I'm glad we celebrated yesterday. It was definitely better to have him at least well enough he could keep down his birthday pie. Today is a different story. He is down right miserable.
Our first soccer game is tonight at 5:30 p.m. and it should be interesting.
Oh ya, it's raining, poor kids these games are some of the hardest games to play and their first one is going to be in the rain. I know they'll still have fun. Bring out the raincoats and warm clothes. At least they can wear warm clothes under their uniform.
Our second practice on Saturday was better it was actually warm enough that you just needed a jacket. Of course, that's when the kids think they don't need them anymore.
Dalton and Caitlin were both throwing up on Sunday so everyone stayed home Sunday and Monday, trying not to spread the germs. Now Jim is sick on his birthday. I'm glad we celebrated yesterday. It was definitely better to have him at least well enough he could keep down his birthday pie. Today is a different story. He is down right miserable.
Our first soccer game is tonight at 5:30 p.m. and it should be interesting.
Oh ya, it's raining, poor kids these games are some of the hardest games to play and their first one is going to be in the rain. I know they'll still have fun. Bring out the raincoats and warm clothes. At least they can wear warm clothes under their uniform.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Spring, Soccer and Snow
What do all of these things have in common? It is spring and time for soccer excepting the fact that there is snow on the ground. Somehow I think I'm cursed. I got talked into coaching Dalton's soccer team and you can probably guess what happened? It snowed on the first day I tried to practice. Since it's a U6 team and 6 out of the 7 kids have never played soccer I decided it would be better to wait and practice on a day it's not suppose to snow. Hopefully Friday? Not sure how that is going to go but we'll see. All of them are really excited to play, but it was snowing pretty heavily and I didn't want any of them to get hurt on the first day of practice. I'll post pictures as I go about soccer.
Normally we get rain and that's okay, but I don't want to deal with snow and soccer. Although, the kids will probably enjoy it because they can make snow angels when they're done playing just like some of the High School soccer teams did last night that played in SLC.
We even had a power outage this morning because a branch hit one of the transformers, it was out for about an hour. My older boys were excited because they thought they might get out of school early, but the city got the transformer fixed so they have a full day of school.
Normally we get rain and that's okay, but I don't want to deal with snow and soccer. Although, the kids will probably enjoy it because they can make snow angels when they're done playing just like some of the High School soccer teams did last night that played in SLC.
We even had a power outage this morning because a branch hit one of the transformers, it was out for about an hour. My older boys were excited because they thought they might get out of school early, but the city got the transformer fixed so they have a full day of school.
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