This past weekend was their first tournament in Thibodaux, Louisiana, which is southeast of Lafayette. Ethan and I had scheduled to travel down on Friday with his friend, Landon, and his mom, Monet. We were going to share a hotel and the boys were so excited about it.
The team had three games scheduled for the tournament, two on Saturday and another on Sunday. We had plans to get up on Sunday morning and leave to meet everyone at church in Jennings. The tournament directors knew how far we were travelling to play the games and moved all of our games to Saturday. That made us very happy because that meant that Ethan got to play with his team in all the games.
I woke up Friday morning sick. I hoped and prayed that I would get better so that I could go, but it was not to be. Allen and I decided that he would take Ethan and go to Thibodaux, so they headed out Friday after school. I was very disappointed to have to stay behind. I was really looking forward to hanging out with Ethan.
One of the boys on the team had a birthday and the team celebrated with pizza and cupcakes in the hotel lobby after everyone arrived. They woke up bright and early on Saturday for an 8:00 game.
Ethan is #22.
I do not know what he is doing in these pictures, but everyone around him is a bundle of energy and he is standing still. He chews on his fingers all the time, but especially when he is nervous.
He chews a lot during games. We've been trying to break him of the habit,
but you can see that he appeared nervous while they warmed up.
He chews a lot during games. We've been trying to break him of the habit,
but you can see that he appeared nervous while they warmed up.
Warming up.
Talking with the head coach, Andrew Martin.
I love this picture of the soccer balls left on the field.
They lost their first two games, each 6-0. Ethan told me they were so close and that they almost won.
Ha! I think he is delusional. Allen said that the other teams had been playing together a lot longer than our team had been. The Moss Bluff Soccer Club and the team is only one year old and all our boys are required to play recreational soccer during the season, which the other teams they met are not.
They stay together all year and play.
Ethan is the far right purple player. He has been playing a wing position.
I'm not exactly sure what that entails yet, but I believe it is more mid-field than he played in rec.
In rec though, they were just beginning this year to play positions and be more man-on-man. Ethan played offense and the forward position. So now he is learning a new position.
Ethan throwing the ball in.
Their last game was supposed to be played against the first team that beat them earlier in the day,
but somehow they ended up playing a U-12 team in a friendly match, while that other team played for the Championship or something. I'm not really sure I understood it the way Allen explained it.
Not sure he really understood what had happened either.
The Steel with the U-12 team.
They got home on Saturday night around 9:15 or so.
Ethan was exhausted, but said that he had a great time!
The next tournament is supposed to be in three weeks in New Iberia, but apparently we would play the same teams we played this weekend. So, they are trying to move us to a tournament in Monroe for the weekend of February 16-17, but we will be out of town. They have two more tournaments planned after that for March and April in Alexandria and Shreveport.
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