Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Kobra Soccer

I gathered together pictures from Tucker soccer season.  He got to play on the high school varsity team as a Freshman here in Sasebo.  The first picture is of the entire soccer team on their awards night.  The coach likes to talk and we were there for three hours.  A few other teams were doing awards as well, but it was a long night.  
Tucker's team traveled to play.  He only had one weekend where they played two home games, and those were the last games of the season.  All the other weekends Tucker got to miss school all Friday and sometimes Thursday as well to travel and he wouldn't come back until Saturday night or even Sunday.  On top of that he had practice everyday after school until 5ish, so we never really got to see him.  He also had to be taken to base or picked up late at night or early in the morning.   Lots of weekends I had to drop him off around midnight.  The bus would drive the entire night and they would play a team in Tokyo around 5pm the next day.  Most weekends he traveled about 5 hours away to play, and one time they even flew.  
The team worked really really hard but they never actually won a game.  Their first home game was one of the last of the season but the first game they didn't have to travel to and they got to have their family and friends watch and they tied the champion team.  It was really exciting for everyone.  I think they could have done better if they didn't have to travel to every game.
Tucker did not get a ton of playing time but he was happy to be on the team.  The coach couldn't bring all the players on the away game they flew to and Tucker was worried he would be one of the three boys who didn't get to go.  Luckily he got to go, and he was thrilled.  The coach said he improved a lot over the season and I agree.  This was Tucker's first time playing on a more serious team.











Overall, it was a little hard on us to have Tucker gone all the time.  We missed him and his grades did suffer.  Tucker absolutely loved it though and he worked really hard and made friends so he definitely wants to do it again next year.

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