Rylan's Soccer Season

Rylan also had his last soccer game last Saturday.  His game was at 2 pm.  I'm never sure whether to give him a short nap before the game or not.  I chose wrong on that day.  We let him sleep on the way to the game (with a little extra driving around) for about 45 minutes.  He never fully woke up until after the game.  It was ROUGH.

If I remember correctly, Rylan started the game and then when taking the ball toward the goal, he tripped and fell and then didn't play again until the second half.  I couldn't get him to stop crying so Brian took him off the field and sat with him on the sideline.  Eventually Rylan calmed down but then wouldn't stand up and just sat there with his head bowed.  It was especially frustrating that he wasn't playing that day because we were finally playing a team that was worse than us :)  Rylan could have scored a dozen goals, at least!

After lots of bribing and begging, we finally got Rylan out on the field.  He immediately took the ball down the field and scored.  Then he tried again and fell again and cried.  I think we got Rylan to play one more time after another break and the other team's coach didn't see Rylan behind him and took him out.

Brian didn't get a chance to take many pictures or videos since Rylan was mostly not playing, but here is a video of Rylan taking the ball down and then tripping.  He did an awesome job though taking the ball away from the other team and dribbling it :)

I think Rylan is an awesome player but he's still young.  Silly things upset him and with being extra tired with our afternoon games, he has trouble getting past these things.  Hopefully he's a little more mature by the spring season.

And I think our entire team had similar issues.  I don't think any of them were 4 years old yet and most teams had at least a few that were 4.  They just didn't have the drive or maturity to excel in games.  But I think they still had fun at practice and don't hate soccer (which is my goal as their coach, and to teach them a few skills).

I organized the same post game celebration for my team after our game.  Brian set everything up for me before the end of the game.  My team even collected money and gave me a $100 gift card to Target!!!

Signup for the spring season is in January and practice starts at the end of February.  I'm looking forward to the break though.  I'm happy to have free Saturdays and two evenings back where I can actually make dinner instead of trying to fit it in after practice and before the boys bath and bed time.