A few months ago Finn joined the Stanford Soccer Club U9 division and was placed with the other newbies on the Avalanche team. (The club isn’t associated with Stanford University, by the way.) When we signed up I had been told this was a noncompetitive development team. Unfortunately, there was so little interest from other families in a noncompetitive club that they rolled Finn into the competitive side of things. Big surprise.
Eventually we got used to the idea and decided to let him play despite our weekly wincing at the “cheering” from the sidelines of his games. Our team is fairly mellow as it turns out, but we played some other teams with lots of yellers.
The season ended last weekend and he wanted to sign up to play again in the Fall. Oy. Here are some pictures from this season.
In his last game, he played goalie for the second half and did well!
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