1 May, 2012

Soccer has started for the year. Hannah enjoyed her first game. They came away with a win, and the team looks really good, passing well, and adapting to the larger field as if they had been practising all last year for it. Which is exactly the case.
Zach's team was a struggle to put together. He is at the age where many of the boys are at Boys High, and there is a lot of pressure to play for the school, not the club. I don't think that is fair really, when it is the clubs that put the work in to prepare and coach the boys to this level. However, this is the crazy system we operate under. The coach is playing Zach midfield, which will take him a week or two to get his head around, as he usually plays defense.They lost this first game, but they were played a Boys High team, i.e. all older and bigger.
Janine went to Dunedin on Monday to visit Otago university, caught up with Katarina and generally is all excited about next year.