Oct 25th and 26th Matches
Coach Mike | October 24, 2008Our regular season continues as we face off against Burlington White (Saturday – Away) and GUFC Blitz (Sunday – Home)
Our Burlington match is ‘away’ at Springwood park – about a 15 minute drive from the soccer complex. Here is a map and directions
The address is 1450 Springwood Church Rd for those with a GPS. And yes, you CAN take the Hwy 61 exit and come in the back way on Whitsett Park Rd. I’ve found almost no difference time wise.
Springwood closes quickly when it rains, so I’m thinking Saturday is a 50/50 shot. We’ll keep you posted on any reschedule if they do close their fields.
If the rain holds off we’ll be doing pictures at 12:45 at the Mebane complex then we’ll caravan from there to Springwood for our match at 2:30. The girls wanted to wear their Yellow jerseys in the team picture, so have them wear yellow. However, make sure they’re in their Blue for the away match.
Blue *jerseys* that is. The girls worked VERY hard in practice both Monday and yesterday. The coaches felt they had earned their uniforms back and we hope it’ll carry over into our matches this weekend.
Our match against the GUFC Blitz is at home Sunday at 4PM. Arrive at 3PM and wear yellow!
We’ll be pushing the girls hard this weekend – not to ‘win’ but to play smart. The scores this weekend are meaningless. We want to see the girls start to play smart soccer and move the ball around the field with ease. We know they have the 1v1 skills to go up against most teams we face, but we have to do a better job moving the ball and creating opportunities, especially when under pressure. The full field practice yesterday helped them see that.
Nicole and Micaela worked very hard both in our last match and the past few practices. This was a tough choice because all of the girls worked VERY hard – but they put in that little ‘extra’ and will be our captains for the next two weeks. Then we’ll choose captains for the tournaments.
