On Wednesday this week I canceled #1's soccer practice due to thunderstorms and a soaking wet field. To say that effected the game would be a monstrous understatement.
The team did not run around almost at all. They did not watch the ball. They talked about their week, and they only put 3 shots on goal compared to the other team's 12 shots (10 scores?) on goal. We forgot nearly everything from previous practices.
Salt in the wound? Not a lot of the teams in this league are actually "coached" with intent, technique and goals. I've only seen one other team in the league that demonstrates that kind of coaching. It is the team coached by the man I call "Tom Cruise" because of his "Days of Thunder"/"Risky Business" (never seen it) circa 1983 sunglasses. I've never seen him without them. Does he wear them at night? Anyway, he was the only coach to beat my team last year in our nearly perfect season, and he handed our team Saturday a brutal whipping reminiscent of BYU putting on a clinic for UCLA.
Practice will not be canceled anymore. 4 foot snow drifts? With lightening? Hurricane force winds? The field falls into crevice from earthquake? Builds character. Suck it up and put some hustle into that snow bank.
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