The soccer season is well underway, and we’re off to an undefeated start.
Not that winning matters. But it does.
Your behavior in the context of Dad-as-coach has its twists and turns, and the most recent iteration is you having your own “strategy” for the game, as you call it. That strategy involves you playing defense and watching the game in front you, making the occassional big tackle, and otherwise watching the run of play.
As a result, you’re playing back on the field quite a bit and more passively. You’ll get locked in and chase after a ball a few times on your own, but when I push you to move forward, you remind me of the aforementioend strategy, yelling the reminder to me across the field.
Needless to say, I’d prefer you follow my strategies that get you more active on the field.
This is progress though. Last season, you sat out of a lot of drills at practice that you didn’t like and you blantantly wouldn’t listen to a lot of my instructions on the field. I swore after last season that I wouldn’t couch you again, but duty called for our rec team with a lot of great kids. I can’t complain. The quality of play has gotten better, and we have focused on skills and passing that have resulted in a lot of goals in games.
We’ve scored so much in games that I started requiring the team to pass at least twice before going toward goal. And guess what, then we score even more because we’re spacing out on the field and moving the ball more quickly.
That said, the “team” has been doing a good job with all of that ball movement, and now I need more of that from my new star defender. I’m sure you’ll get the ball trapping and quick passing online — as soon as you decide it’s part of your strategy.
Love, Dad