https://sgillies.net/enSun, 31 Dec 2023 01:26:22 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://sgillies.net/2018/03/31/soccer-blogging-season.htmlSean Gillies<p>It's soccer season on my blog through the end of May: after three seasons of coaching my oldest's U9 and U10 teams in 2015 and 2016, I'm coaching my youngest's U9 team for the first time.</p> <p>We had our first game today and got routed by a very good team. I talked to the coach afterward and she told me that her kids have been playing together for years and she's been coaching them for 3 seasons. It shows! My team has a way to go before we can hang with a team like this one.</p> <p>Maybe it was the hard ground, maybe it was first game nervousness, but between the two teams, I think we might have set a record for hand balls in this game. This was hard on our volunteer referees, who had to make a lot of decisions to call or not call based on advantage, which was unfortunate. It was a tough game to call.</p>footylifeoutdoorssoccerhttps://sgillies.net/2018/03/31/soccer-blogging-season.htmlSun, 01 Apr 2018 02:45:08 GMT