Had something funny happen during a game this weekend, and I was wondering if anyone else had some funny ones to share. Please share them here.
This weekend, I coached a girls team in a tournament. We ended up having to play against another club team comprised of younger girls who were also in our bracket. The game was a mismatch because the younger team is a newly formed team. It's being coached by someone I respect and I'm sure they'll do good things with it, but as the game ground on, it was obvious we were mismatched.
Not wanting to crush the spirits of the girls in the new team, as the game progressed, I tried to avoid mercy ruling them. I started putting some of my kids who don't get to play enough in, and then eventually I was playing them positions they never play. Early in the game, I put my 1st string goalie into the game in midfield, and as the game continued, eventually I moved her up to forward. She's a gifted goalie, and a fair midfielder, but she's not a good forward. As the game progressed, the girls on my team more and more began to focus on trying to help our goalie (now playing forward) score a goal. She claims she's never gotten one. So eventually, they were focusing entirely on getting my goalie the ball, practically serving them up on a silver platter. But the other team's defense was feisty and did an admirable job protecting their goal. Since they were a "sister" club team, I found myself coaching them instead of my own team. Eventually, it became really obvious what my girls were trying to do. At last, one of the forwards rolled a ball practically right to the feet of our goalie-playing-forward who finally had a clear shot at the goal...she absolutely pasted it into the stratosphere, with the ball landing in the middle of the next field over. Thankfully, the teams playing next door were at halftime.
Play continued, and my own girls weren't giving up on their play to help our own goalie score a point. It kept getting more and more blatant, until finally one of my most gifted forwards started from the right forward position, shook off two defenders, ran right toward the opponent's goalie, who was all alone and then proceeded to take a hard U-turn to bring the ball right back to our own goalie-turned-forward and roll it to her feet.
She then kicked it right to the other goalie. The game ended shortly after that.
I just wish all of you could have seen the look on the opponent goalies face when my forward had a perfect shot into the goal but then took a hard U-turn. Complete shock. Hysterical!
This weekend, I coached a girls team in a tournament. We ended up having to play against another club team comprised of younger girls who were also in our bracket. The game was a mismatch because the younger team is a newly formed team. It's being coached by someone I respect and I'm sure they'll do good things with it, but as the game ground on, it was obvious we were mismatched.
Not wanting to crush the spirits of the girls in the new team, as the game progressed, I tried to avoid mercy ruling them. I started putting some of my kids who don't get to play enough in, and then eventually I was playing them positions they never play. Early in the game, I put my 1st string goalie into the game in midfield, and as the game continued, eventually I moved her up to forward. She's a gifted goalie, and a fair midfielder, but she's not a good forward. As the game progressed, the girls on my team more and more began to focus on trying to help our goalie (now playing forward) score a goal. She claims she's never gotten one. So eventually, they were focusing entirely on getting my goalie the ball, practically serving them up on a silver platter. But the other team's defense was feisty and did an admirable job protecting their goal. Since they were a "sister" club team, I found myself coaching them instead of my own team. Eventually, it became really obvious what my girls were trying to do. At last, one of the forwards rolled a ball practically right to the feet of our goalie-playing-forward who finally had a clear shot at the goal...she absolutely pasted it into the stratosphere, with the ball landing in the middle of the next field over. Thankfully, the teams playing next door were at halftime.
Play continued, and my own girls weren't giving up on their play to help our own goalie score a point. It kept getting more and more blatant, until finally one of my most gifted forwards started from the right forward position, shook off two defenders, ran right toward the opponent's goalie, who was all alone and then proceeded to take a hard U-turn to bring the ball right back to our own goalie-turned-forward and roll it to her feet.
She then kicked it right to the other goalie. The game ended shortly after that.
I just wish all of you could have seen the look on the opponent goalies face when my forward had a perfect shot into the goal but then took a hard U-turn. Complete shock. Hysterical!
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