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I must say that I did expect our team to win our first match. However, I wasn’t so sure about our second match against the YMCA team. And I certainly didn’t expect us to dominate the match with such ease. But remember last season’s posts on “how big” some of the other kids were compared [...]

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Soccer season is back y’all…and the Green Team had another great start — despite all the changes.
Only 3 of the 12 players from last season’s undefeated team have returned: Lorenzo, Hunter, and Rylan. The new team is now mostly composed of younger kids who have recently moved up from U8 — the Under 8 league.  [...]

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This was the last match of the season, and everyone was excited about the possibility of finishing it undefeated. Now, I don’t understand why the AUSA would do this, but we had to face the Gold team for the third time for our final match.
During all the previous matches, in addition to coach Matt [...]

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We replayed the AUSA Gold Team — a rematch of our first match of the season. It was certainly not as easy this time around. As expected, we are not the only team that has improved, and they are way more organize now. However, it was not technical skills or speed that made it [...]

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Since we were hosting the YMCA-Blue team at our field, I certainly expected this match to have been much easier. It was our hardest test yet. We had to come from behind three times; our team was a bit off; but our players never did give up.
The Y team scored first within a few [...]

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The Green team remains undefeated!!! WOW! And they simply keep getting better and better…
We were back at the YMCA playing a team that beat us last year. But this time around, we were clearly much better. Our team really played as team; we controlled most of the possession; and we did a fantastic job [...]

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It was a tough match, but the Green Team won another match, and remains undefeated.
Green 4 x 2 YMCA-2 (Blue)
It is always hard playing at the “Y”. They usually have very competitive teams, and their fields are larger then the ones used by the AUSA league; which means the team has to play [...]

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Another great game!
Lorenzo scored the first two goals — two beautiful shots from just outside the goalkeeper’s box. Daniel extended our lead with another goal, and the Green finished the first quarter up 3 x 0.
The second quarter was a bit more even, the score remained the same at half.
Luke had some excellent chances [...]

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Another Fantastic Match! Everyone has improved in just a week (2 practices), and it showed.
Unfortunately, I left my second batteries at home, and I ran out of “juice” before half time.
We started extremely well and finished the first quarter 4 x 0. They came back on the second quarter, but we managed to [...]

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As Spring returns so does Soccer.
Lorenzo has been playing for the Athens United Soccer Association (AUSA) for the past 4 years. And being the self-proclaimed soccer-nut that I am, I’ve been quite involved either as the Coach or Assistant Coach. However, last Fall season was so chaotic, I was planning to simply be the [...]

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