a tale of two games

Sebastian is on two soccer teams this fall - one is the Forest Heights Eagles rec team that he's been on since kindergarten. All of his friends are with him on the team and he loves it. They're also pretty good and tend to win the majority of their games by large margins. That team practices on Thursdays and plays Saturday games: these pictures are from last Saturday's matchup, which they won 5-0.

Sebastian asked to play goalie in the second half of the game and he was super bored. And hot, and thirsty. It was a good learning experience about the dangers of getting what you wish for.

The second team is the Lincoln Youth soccer club's competitive team, which plays against the club soccer squads that are very common in Portland. (It's a serious soccer town.) This is his first year playing at this level and he's with the 2007 birth year cohort - so mostly the boys are older than him. Many of his school friends are also on this LYS team with him, which is great. They practice on Tuesdays and play on Sundays; the first game of the season was last Sunday and they got shellacked. I don't know the final score, but it was probably 7-0. In the first half they didn't get the ball out of their own end zone, much less shoot on the other net. They rallied and played better in the second half, but it was still an eye-opening defeat. The boys, including Sebastian, all handled it well, and so it was probably a good learning experience for them - good to know that you've got room to improve!