"Master Goalie"

Brady had his first soccer game Saturday morning. He practiced being goalie before the game and was asked to be goalie (for the first half of the first half) to start the game. He loved being goalie! He could use his hands and throw it a long ways to get it out of his team's scoring area. A coach came over after the game and called him "Master Goalie" and he was so excited and told a lot of people about this over the weekend - he was so happy, which made me so happy :)

From the looks of it, he seemed to like playing goalie much better than playing offense. You could tell some of the kids loved getting in the middle of everyone and trying to kick the ball out. Brady, not so much. . . .at least for his first game.

There was a big bag of quartered oranges for the kids to eat on breaks. I had never heard of this, but it seems to be a "soccer thing" - the kids dug in.

The coaches are great. It's a very relaxed atmosphere, but they seem to know what they're doing. And I was happy to see that they do the "parent tunnel" after the game too - the other team even went through it.

Go rattlesnakes!