Soccer Soccer Soccer

Wednesday nights and most all day Saturdays the Trettels can be found out on the soccer field! Roman is playing in U10's this year and there is truly no living with that boy as he has earned himself the position of forward. Roman has ALWAYS been a dominate defensive player with great ambitions of being a scorer, but never quite fast enough to keep up with the natural forwards. He has an amazing foot and could send the ball the width of a full size soccer field by the time he was 6, so naturally every coach has played him back. Coach Bill sees something different in him and is using that foot to get the ball in the goal! His first game this past weekend landed him 1 assist.... though we're not 100% sure if it was actually his assist or his goal with his team mates assist! Here's the play, you decide..... the ball is passed to Roman with him in clear line of the goal. He goes for the kick to take the goal as his teammate rushes to the net signaling he is there to accept a pass. Too late, the ball goes soaring, hits his teammate in the head and bounces into the goal! Regardless of assist or goal, Roman was on cloud 9! His team won 6-1. It could have gone a lot higher, but at half time with a 5-0 win his coach asked them to back off the goal and practice their plays and passing instead to give the other team a chance.... they were very obviously the dominate team. We discussed a lot about that call on the way home. Yes they could have run up the score, but why?? His coach is awesome, we are thrilled with him. He is fair, loves the game, and instills that love in his boys.

Hope too is playing this year in the U8 division. James is coaching her team. There's a lot of individual talent on the team, but we got our work cut out for us getting them to act like a team! They lost their first game, but in the 3rd quarter James paired Hope up with the other little girl, Haley, on the team as forwards. Now I'll admit a gawked a bit at the sight. Haley is a good soccer player, when she stays focused. She easily bores or gives up mid stream. And Hope, well, she's our Hopey Hope, but God love her she is just not the most athletic one in the family. Still those 2 together were great! That was the most soccer I've seen Hope truly play ever!

A funny story about Hope this season..... on her first practice James had them all practicing goal kicks with each player taking turns as goalie. So Hope's the goalie and the first kid comes up to take a kick and she stands there as the ball rolls in not 2 feet away from her watching all the way into the net, then she begins clapping her hands and jumping up and down cheering him on. "Yeah, woohoo! Way to go! That was a great kick!" .... ummm, Hope.... let's discuss the job of the goalie again! LOL

And this year we add Miss B to the game! Bethany met her coach finally on Saturday morning just minutes before her first game. As crazy as that sounds, she and her team did fantastic! They kicked some butt on the field and had a blast. This age group is just too cute for words!