Well after the first week back at soccer practice I have to say I’m pretty disappointed.  Last Monday we had to cancel due to freezing rain but had practice as normal on Wednesday night and then we had practice this morning since we missed Monday.

Wednesday night was nice out weather wise, just a little chilly but not bad.  We had 2/3rd’s of the team there and didn’t do too shabby.  However this morning was a disaster.  Now it was pretty cold this morning with the wind chill.  Beside the weather they just showed lack enthusiasm, intensity, and showed a willingness of not really wanting to be there or practice for that fact.

I really hate to be mean about it but there are a few players on the team that just don’t do anything.  And to top that, a few players didn’t take care of themselves over the 3.5 week break and have hurt knees.

Tonight is a pizza party that they earned.  I hope they have fun cause serious soccer will be back starting Monday!

Tonight we have another tournament for our soccer team.  Chances look pretty decent to hopefully pull out at least 1 win tonight or tomorrow.  We have 3 games at a minimum.

The location is about a 50 minute drive so it’s not too far off.  However..  Right now the temps are about 48 and by the time the game starts should be colder with some wind.  So I hope us coaches and the players have their winter gear.  I know I pulled out my gloves and beanie last night to make sure I was prepared for tonight’s game.

I will update later tonight or tomorrow late afternoon on how we did..

Well the Fall season came to an end last Sunday.  We finished up with 2 wins and 10 losses and 0 Ties.  Please remember that this is our first season playing competitive and we are also playing up 1 age bracket.  So as the fall season closes, we have a 2 weekend break from games and we can now practice hard for an upcoming tournament.

When the spring season arrives (In march I believe) they will split up the one huge division we are in and we will be placed in division 2 essentially.  I believe with a couple tournaments and our continued practice that we will have a better season in the spring time than we did in the fall.

The game started great.  A few small mistakes but nothing major.  You head into half time 0-0 and in good shape with the other team slowing down and then what happens..  Well I wish I knew.  I lost track but I think we lost 0-4 or 0-5 today.  I’m just not sure how that can really happen  0-0 at halftime and then completely forget what we just talked about.

I guess we will see what happens tomorrow.  We have game #2 of league play in the hotter part of the day, so it should be interesting.  I think the worst part of it all is that we could have beaten this without a doubt…

Guess we have a lot to work on this week at practice and I can say that without even watching the game tomorrow.  On a brighter note.  We got a new player this week to add to the team and she played most of the game and is pretty good.  Hope we can develop her play more.

Well are are getting close to our first tournament and things are starting to click into place.  It doesn’t really help that we have a couple girls out still on vacation.

Now we just need to focus more on strategy and playing on the field that way we can be one complete team.

This last weekend we had a pretty good practice before the heat started taking over since it’s been so hot!!!
We were able to work on some agility drills and then we split the offense and defense up to work on more individualized drills for that specific area.

Tonight we will see what we can really do since it’s supposed to reach 106 today.

While I don’t watch every match every weekend, or go see the local professional team every game, that doesn’t mean I love soccer.  I grew up playing soccer with my dad coaching me almost my entire youth soccer career (I think 1 year I played on another team) and I have also accumulated about 15 years of coaching experience at all youth levels.

Now that I’m coaching once again after a year or two off, I have jumped back into or onto a competitive soccer team.  Yep I have probably written something about them before but we are a new team that has been training for almost the last year in preparation to move into the competitive leagues.  So naturally I’m now interested in following all of the competitive clubs in the area.  Now we are not a Lake Highlands team (Lake highlands is the premier competitive league in North Texas) so I don’t mind checking out how other teams do especially since they represent North Texas Youth Soccer.

So this week (started last night) is the Youth National Championships.  There are quite a few North Texas teams that have made it and are playing for the National Title in there age division.  So here are the current results up to this time.  Most of these teams have played 2 games already in there bracket:

U18:
Sting Dallas 90 – 2-0-0 (1st Place)

U17:
Dallas Texans 91 Red – 1-0-0 (1st Place)
** Play 2nd game tonight at 7pm**

U16:
Dallas Texans 92 Red – 1-0-1 (1st Place)
Sting Dallas Royal 92 – 0-1-1 (3rd Place)

U15:
Dallas Texans 93 Red – 0-0-2 (2nd Place)

U14:
D’Feeters 94 – 0-1-1 (3rd Place)

Good luck to the North Texas Teams..

I will update and post new scores when they come available.