First Soccer games of the season

Robert made the A  team at Javanon Soccer Club.  He is so excited.  This team looks to be a very promising group of talented young athletes.

They have been practicing every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for 2 hours each session for about a month.  It's intense!

They had their first games of the season on Saturday, 9/3 in St. Louis, MO.  It was 99 degrees F there.  The first game was at 11:00 am - right in the heat of the day.

We lost 5-1, but mostly due to their own errors.  They should have one.  We were out played on the first goal, but then our spacing got off down the middle and they scored again.  The third goal was an own goal - oops! (by Mason Rice) and the forth goal was an own goal - oops! (by the goalie Trey), and the fifth goal was scored because our goalie didn't even move to stop the ball.  YIKES!

Robert started the game (awesome) and individually he had a great game.  He only let one ball get past him, but then it went out of bounds.

Luckily the second game, which was also in the heat of the day at 3:30 pm was much better.  We still lost 2-1, but we played much better.  Robert didn't start but was subbed in quickly.  He had a shot on goal, and a few that would have been assists, but he was out of range for his goal, and although it was a good cross, we didn't make the score.

Tough day, especially after driving 5 hours for him to play!