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Recollections of Junior Girls’ Soccer
Forget about the Premier League for a minute and let’s talk about amateur football and specifically our kids. A few years ago, I coached my daughters, let’s call them Emma, Megan, and Trinity, for a total of sixteen seasons in the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO). I only coached Emma for one year. She turned out to have two left feet and gave it up in favor of cross-country. Then […] Read More
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Gedas plays for Ukraine!
Gedas is Lithuanian but he plays for the Ukraine team. Not surprising since the Lithuanians are a rather frosty outfit. But that’s what fifty years of Soviet occupation will do to you! The league is the National Metropolitan Soccer League, Over 48 Division and the teams are playing the second semifinal. The game is being contested on a turf pitch in Oak Brook in perfect conditions – the late autumn […] Read More
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Recollections of Former Managers
Managing a junior football team is an all too familiar story. Training midweek nights in the middle of Winter, being locked out, washing kits, retrieving kit from disillusioned parents, nets and corner flags in car boot all week, running line (because no one else could be arsed), collecting last month’s subs that were, of course, claimed to have been paid, transporting fourteen boys in two cars, taking two boys home […] Read More
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