I missed my son’s second league football game of the season, as I was away at the MAD Blog Awards. They were flying high after their first game. Could they keep it up?
My son scored the first goal of the game. He’s moved into midfield this season, where he has always wanted to play, after many years in defence. He is really growing into the position and he is loving it. And by loving it, he is playing better.
Then the opposition scored. Twice. Including a penalty. 2-1 down is not a good place to be. I’ve seen the team go behind so often and then start falling apart. They get down about being behind and they seem seem to stop trying. 2-1 can very quickly become 5-1 and another defeat. Then they go into their following game still feeling down and, before you know it, you’ve got a season of defeats and you’re bottom of the league.
I don’t know the finer detail of how the scoring went after that, apart from they took the lead. One of the team scored a hat trick. Suddenly they were 6-2 up.
And the game finished 7-3.
It’s early days, but they’ve got six very valuable points in the bag – they hardly got more than that in the whole of last season. They’re not the league whipping boys any more. Right now, they’re the ones to beat.
They’re equal top of the league. They’ve scored 11 and conceded three and one of their players is currently top scorer in the league.
I’m very proud of my son, his team-mates and their long-suffering, hard-working coach (that’ll be my husband!).
Here’s to the next game!
September 24, 2014
Oooh well done to them on recovering and getting the hat trick. I know even in a “mid 30s” game of footy, conceding a goal has a big negative impact on moral and motivation. Hope they win the league x
September 24, 2014
Thanks very much, so do I! I know it’s really early days yet, but it’s nice to feel that it is actually possible (although my husband wouldn’t want them to be promoted and go back to getting thrashed every week!).
September 24, 2014
Well done!! Hope they continue to play so well! They’re doing great x
September 26, 2014
Popping back over from Loud n Proud….I meant *morale* …duh! Just read that comment back 🙂
September 29, 2014
That’s great news, as you say, it puts them in such a positive frame of mind going forward. And, it’s great that they came back from behind, that a really strong mental achievement x #CountryKids