It has been a while

And I want to apologize to everyone, I had not realized the length of time that had elapsed since my last post. I know I always promise to bring up the seminar and more details around it and I might, but it really was not that thick enough.

This past weekend, I opened the season for spring with an invitation tournament. In all, I did 8 matches, 3 centers and 5 AR positions. They were for U13 and U14 boys. Decent level of competition since only halfway decent teams get in. My son's team got invited in their U10 category and were promptly blown out of the first two matches. They did manage to tie their last match, but not the start of the season they were expecting.

As for me, I have been getting myself in shape with exercising in the morning for about 30 minutes or so. But no running and that is something I am going to have to change. I was VERY tired after match #4 on Saturday. Sunday was a bit better, but still, I needed a healthy dose of Advil when I was done.

There was not much to tell about the matches in general, except that on Saturday, as an AR, there was a situation where a player got hurt. Ball was close to my position so the center told me to do the drop ball instead of him. Never had that happen before, and if I am the center, I would handle a drop ball, not the AR, who has a more important function, offside. Anyone ever have that? What do you think?

On Sunday, I arrived at my field 30 minutes before kick off and so did the other AR. Our center arrived 3 minutes before kick off and was angry at me for doing the coin flip. I did not want to start an argument with the center since we were going to be a crew for the 4 matches, but I really wanted to tell him to be a little bit earlier next time. Everything after that went fine. We even had one of those, we both saw the same thing from different angles and complemented each other on the non-call, but it irked me at the beginning to get slapped on the wrist for something that I should not have.

These next 3 weekends include more tournaments, so there will be a lot of soccer and a lot of material for the blog. If I ever get to post it, well, that is a different story!