Mia's First Soccer Game
Mis is my grandaughter. Since she was little, she had always been athletic, so when she was five years old, her parents thought of having her play soccer. The parents do the coaching for the kids.
Dring her first game, she scored the only two points for the game - one for her team, and one for the opposing team. Apparently, the parent coaches did not explain enough about the competition, and how one is supposed to kick the ball into only one of the goal nets, not either one of them. She liked the game so much, and did so well, she had to be told to give the other kids a chance to also move the ball.
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Isn't it interesting that when the game is played for fun, rather than competition, your granddaughter was ecstatic to make both points--and I'll bet it didn't really matter that much to her what competition was!
I can see her little legs running up and down the field and I can imagine your face when she was so excited with the goals. Too cute!!
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