Rylan - Soccer

Rylan had his first soccer game of the season today (Carter has a bye week).  Brian is coaching both teams again.  Rylan's team has 9 (of 11) players returning from the fall with 3 new players (including one of his buddies from preschool).  Both boys are also playing baseball, but we recently got all the schedules and there is a lot less overlap than we expected!

Rylan did amazing today!  He scored 4 goals!  But what I'm really proud of is that he never gave up or started crying!!!  There was even once that he took the ball almost all the way down the field, got around 2 defenders, and then had his own teammate kick the ball away from him at the goal (and miss the shot).  Rylan wanted to get upset, but he didn't!  I hope he keeps up this matured attitude!

This is Rylan scoring his first goal (Rocco, the kid in orange, was on Rylan's team when I coached him).

Rylan has decided he wants to wear one of my headbands (just like his buddy Gray who wears his mom's).

Rylan with his buddy Radnor waiting for the other team to kick off ...

There was a lot of clustering around the ball still but Rylan's team easily dominated the other team on his field (I think the other field had a much more even match up).

Rylan did a great job of dribbling to the goal today ...

So proud of his effort today!!!