This past weekend Brandon's U7 Tigers team played only their 3rd league match having lost the previous two. The kids were all starting to get a little negative making comments like "we always lose" and things like that. I have told the parents to be patient and to not expect much this side of Christmas I try and get this newly formed team to gel together and start working as a team. Well Sunday's game was a huge breakthrough and a massive confidence booster for all the kids and parents. I was so proud to see the boys power to an 8-0 victory. Brandon played 75% of the game in defence and was an absolute rock pretty much stopping everything that headed in his direction. His positioning was great and in the second half I am not even sure the goal keeper got a touch of the ball due to his defending.
So despite one lad scoring 4 goals and another getting 3, I did not chose the goal scorers for the MOTM. What I don't want the team doing is all going goal hungry and thinking they get rewarded for scoring all the goals. So instead I chose to give Brandon the MOTM to emphasise to the whole team the importance of a good defence and how important it is to keep one player back behind the ball at all times. Hopefully a few of them will follow his example and enjoy taking their turn in defence instead of all of them wanting to go upfront and attack all the time.
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| Only the 3rd winner of our MOTM trophy for some really great defending. |
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