The teams split up into two groups and play against the other team on separate fields. We really didn't follow any rules except no picking up the ball and stay within about 10 feet of the out-of-bounds lines :) Missy and I just followed the lead of the other team's coaches since they'd coached before.
I had Carter in my group. He did well except that he isn't really aggressive yet. At this age there is no team work and it's everyone trying to score (which includes taking the ball from your own teammates). There were 5 kids from our team on our field. Two of them only played part of the time (they preferred to sit with their parents on the sideline) and the other two were dominant and just kept taking each other out trying to take the ball. The opposing team wasn't very into playing and so it was pretty much our two dominant players playing against each other trying to score. The score was a whole lot to 2 (which were own-goals scored by our team).
We've worked hard to make sure Carter is nice and gentle to other kids but now we need to teach him that it's okay during soccer to push a bit and get in there! He does it against his brother, he just needs to play that way with other kids!
It rained some during the first part of the game but Brian managed to take a video from under the umbrella. Carter is number 7 in blue. I split it into 2 shorter videos here:
Carter was a little disappointed that he didn't have the ball more but he was super excited when he scored 2 goals. Overall I think he had fun. And he was still excited about practice today.
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