This is Maggie’s second year playing soccer. She loves it. Loves, loves, loves it. I think she’d love any game that allows her to run as fast as she can, and soccer certainly affords her that chance. She is happy from the moment practices starts, and stays happy for a while after the game is over.
And, I think she is pretty good, too. Her team this year has not been a winning one. This fact does not upset Maggie at all. She’s there to play, and the outcome does not really matter to her.
Maggie likes to be in the middle of the action. In fact, I’ve caught her pushing players a couple times so she could make it to the ball. She isn’t aware that she’s doing it, though. She is just so infor the game that the other people become obstacles.
I realize that if she continues with soccer, there are going to be limits to how hard she can push and she will need to learn the limits of fair play and good sportsmanship, but for the moment, she isn’t hurting anyone, and no one has complained, so I don’t plan to dampen her enthusiasm just yet.
Maggie has had several shots on goal, but she hasn’t scored yet. She wants to really badly (and I’m not sure what will happen if Katie does scores next weekend before she does).
And one of Maggie’s favorite parts of the game is her good friend, who she loves to play with and loves spending time with while they are subbed out.
Maggie will miss next week’s game, the last of the season because we’re camping. She’s sad, but once we worked out 2 possibilities of how she will get her trophy, she’s ok with missing the game. She wants to play in the spring, but she is now debating whether she wants to play lacrosse more. This child is interested in any and all sports that let her go fast. Share on Facebook
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