YMCA Summer Soccer Week 1: Dallas v. Philly

This morning was our first soccer game of the summer league at the YMCA. Sadly, none of our former teammates from Team Toronto were playing this summer so we were on our own. Andrew was placed on Team Philadelphia. We really hadn't planned on signing up Andrew for the summer league because we were worried about the heat, but Andrew kept insisting that he wanted to play so we thought we would give it a try.

When we first got there, Andrew wasn't too into practice much to our frustration. And it didn't get much better when the game started and Andrew still wasn't trying very hard either. He basically just wanted to sit in his chair and drink water. But after awhile and some heavy urging of both of us, he finally got into the game and starting running after the ball and getting some touches on it. Lo and behold, Andrew end up scoring twice...one legit goal and then an own goal!

And we had two extra cheerleaders supporting Andrew. Nonna and Stephanie arrived in town during the game. Maybe that was the little bit of extra motivation he needed!