" This is Club not Rec".....

Soccer season started, yippee!! We moved from The Y to Clay County Soccer Club and from one half hour practice and a 45 minute game a week to 2 hour and a half practice and an hour game a week. As much as I love soccer, it is rough to be at the soccer field so often.

Our first game was this morning. Ben played all but one quarter, and he played Defense the entire time. So, I was ticked.

The first game was great, the teams at club are so much better and I was worried that we were going to get pummeled, but or team is actually really good and played great. We did let 3 goals in but we also got 3 goals so game ended with a tie. It was quite eye opening to see the difference in things from where we came.

At the end of the game while we were waiting for snack I asked Ben why he didn't play offense, he said that he asked a few times but the coach said no and not to ask again. I was annoyed so, I talked to the Coach about why Ben was told he could not play Offence. The Coach explained that they coach for position and Ben is one of the best defence players they have so that is going to be where he will be. When I said he wants to run on the field and get goals and how much fun will it be if he is on defense the entire season he said "This is Club not Rec, we coach to position we build them where they are the strongest and Ben is strongest on Defense"..okaaay.