Thomas scored his first goal in an actual soccer game on Saturday! In an interesting twist, he scored it against his own team, but that was a good thing. Illness has hit several of the schools in our area, and the opposing team only had four kids show up, and they needed a minimum of 6. We had 10, so some of our kids went over to the other side to play just so the game time wouldn’t be wasted.
Thomas got to play goalie for a while and blocked a few shots, and let two go through. After that he played defender for quite a while and successfully disrupted some “opponent” attacks. Finally, at the end of the game he was put in at forward, and that was when he got his goal.
Since neither side was running with many subs, Thomas was quite a bit fresher than the other kids on the field. He was able to dribble past his defender and take a shot on goal, which bounced off the goal support. He tried again and it went wide. After that he got the ball again and took two more shots, one of which the goalie deflected and the other one which went between the goalie’s legs.
Thomas was very thrilled to finally have scored in a game, and it’s motivated him to up his practice and his aggressiveness on the field, which is awesome. If we can build on that, he should continue to get better and score more goals in the future!