Another disappointing day at soccer for Corwin. He did well while playing but his team didn’t, losing 3-0. It doesn’t look like they’re going to win any games at all this year, although Corwin isn’t breaking down as much afterwards as he has in the past.
Watching the games it seems to me that at Corwin’s age there is enough difference in development that one or maybe two kids who are more developed or skilled at soccer can dominate the game. In this game and the last one I watched there was one kid on the other team who drove their offense. Corwin’s good but he’s not a game dominating player. Last time the key technique the good kid had was loft on his kicks. This alone makes a big difference because basically no one else gets the ball off the ground in a kick. If you can, then everyone is so short that such kicks go right past them. This time one kid on the other side was a very good ball handler. He either scored or set up every goal. On the last goal he drove the ball all by himself from his goal to right in front of our goal through our entire team, at which point a teammate scored from about 4 feet right out in front of the goal, where the good kid had placed the ball.
It looks like we just got unlucky and didn’t get one of the top players. Oh well. Things should even out as the years go by.