Well that's all folks, a wonderful season of soccer has come to an end. After 15 regular season games, around twice as many practices, and 5 tournaments where the average return trip was about 3hrs things wrapped up on Tuesday night with an unfortunate loss. It was a trying year for the team as there were only 3 returning players and a bunch of new to rep players and one who had never kicked a ball before. Although they lost more than they won they put up a fight in every game and played some really great soccer. At the beginning of the season if you would have asked me and Shannon if we were looking forward to sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field watching a bunch of sweaty boys chase a ball around a field I can't guarantee the response would have been positive. However, almost immediately we both found out how exciting rep soccer can be. The kids have been involved with organized soccer before, both indoor and out but the level of play by the kids on these teams really surprised us both. When they first started practicing we were a little skeptical of whether Kaedo would make the team but coaches saw potential and gave him a shot. Thank god they did as Kaeden had a great year and we enjoyed watching him grow as a player and as a young man. He really did awesome!!! He loved every minute of it and plans to try out again next year. The hardest part for us was putting up with the other teams parents (and some of our own) who yelled to much and criticized too often. Thankfully the kids are pretty good at ignoring parents so they played disregarding the other 20 coaches on the side of the field.
In honour of his season I put together a short video for your viewing pleasure. I hesitate to call it a highlight reel as there were so many great games and short of filming them from start to finish there is no way I was going to be able to capture all his great playing. These are just a collection of some fantastic pictures and action shots and video. For those who saw him play this will look familiar and for those who didn't, hopefully this gives you a good idea of how well he played.
I have embedded the video in this post however if you would like to watch it in a larger format and in stunning HD, just click on the 'Kaedo Rep Soccer' link below the video and it will take you to the site where it is located.
Enjoy!
Kaedo Rep Soccer from Craig Klassen on Vimeo.
2 comments:
Now what are you going to do??? All that free time on your hands!! We sure enjoyed the play by play and loved going to watch Kaeden play. It is quite something to see how well they play at that level. We're looking forward to seeing the video but we'll have to go to the library as we can't view it on our old laptop. It could be the person running the laptop however. Can't bring it up either way.
Beautiful here in B.C. We haven't decided what we're doing today but golf and a walk to the Falls seems like a good guess. This is a beautiful resort and there's so much to do being that it's not too far from Vancouver.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Love to all
GREAT, GREAT VIDEO CRAIG!! We loved being able to take in one of Kaeden's games while we were there. Loved the one of him at the beginning as well - tooooo cute!
Just got home from Curves and had a cup of coffee on the deck with dad and now we're going to have breakfast. Linda, Roberta and I will be heading out to visit mom again this afternoon so the day will pass quickly. Broncos have their first hockey game tonight so dad will be heading to that and I will find something to do I'm sure.
Hope you're all having a great day - BIG HUGS TO ALL!
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