A year has gone by and we’re back to Toby playing Friday night soccer up at Issaquah Highlands. This year Toby is part of a team called the Dragons. He had missed the first game of the season the previous week because we had been in the San Juans but this week he was there and raring to go!
For his first game it was Dragons vs. Cougars. First up was the skills session and Toby obviously did enough to impress his coach and was in the starting 3 for kick-off! About half an hour later the Dragons had beaten the Cougars 4-0 and Toby had bagged himself a couple of debut goals. He got his goals reasonably early on and at the end his coach told us that he’d told Toby, firstly to only shoot with his left foot and then not to shoot at all. Apparently the Dragons had made the opposition cry last week and the coach clearly hadn’t wanted a repeat of that – although I think it is developmental for the kids and should be actively encouraged!
Next week the Dragons are playing the Grasshoppers and Toby will be playing against his friend Jake – that should be fun!
Before the game …
Two goals and a 4-0 win later …
So that was the Dragons setting the soccer tempo for the weekend, could the Gunners follow suit on Sunday? This year is a tough year for Harry. He has gone up to the A team and then in addition to that the A team are playing in the under 11 league and if that wasn’t enough, they are in the Gold bracket of the under 11’s. Soccer doesn’t get much tougher than this!
This week the Gunners were away to old rivals Cascade FC. They are based over past Sammamish so off we went on Sunday afternoon ready to see if the Gunners could get their first league win of the season.
Very early on the Gunners went 1-0 down but we remained confident and rightly so. Soon after coming on as a substitute Harry changed the game! He got the team passing, which soon led to an equalizer and then he received the ball out wide on the right, ran at the goal and belted a screamer past the Cascade keeper.
It stayed 2-1 to the Gunners at half-time and then midway through the second half they went 3-1 up but then the same thing happened as has a few times this season. As they are playing against bigger, stronger boys they seem to tire at the end of the game and with less than 5 minutes left Gunners went from 3-1 up to finishing with a 3-3 draw. Slightly disappointing in the end but at least they have got their first point of the season after losing their first couple of games.
Never mind Gunners – that win will come – hopefully in a couple of weeks against Emerald City in Seattle.
Go Dragons! Go Gunners!