Final soccer weekend

Both kids loved playing soccer this season.  Our final weekend the weather was sunny and very hot.  Both kids had double headers on opposite sides of town at almost the same time.  So we split up and Ben took Maya to her games and I took Alex to his.  I brought my zoom lens and this time it was dry so I got to play and get a lot of shots.

It was an interesting experience in Alex's age group this year.  There were a couple other teams with really intense coaches and interestingly enough those same teams also had issues with trash talk, name calling and pushing/shoving.  Alex's team won one game and tied another, very unlike his experience last year where his team won every game.  But this year personally he played a lot harder and had a lot more contact with the ball than last year.  So all in all it was a great learning experience for him, even the negative stuff.