David is football mad and has been playing in a 'Marshfield Junior and Youth Football Club' team for the last three years. Rob has been investigating the various football, or I should say soccer, options for David here in Texas. After a trial training session David was offered a place in the 'Solar 05 Knights' team with Solar Soccer Academy (
http://dallassolar.net/page.php?pgid=2), which are affliated to Chelsea FC. Training (or 'practice' as they call it) and matches are taken very seriously. The coach is full-time, coaching both high school and youth American football and soccer. He has something of a military style, which isn't quite what David is used to, but the players are all around the same standard as David so he fits into the team well.
The first match of the season was at Oak Grove Soccer Complex in Grapevine. The facilities are fantastic; neat, albeit big, pitches with floodlights, small covered stands for spectators, a toilet block and a playground. They play an 11-a-side one-hour match, with a half-time break, adjudicated by a referee and two lines men. David got off to a great start, scoring the first goal and going on to get a hat-trick, the final score was 7-2 to Solar.
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All ready to go, even if he is a bit disturbed by the
Chelsea kit. |
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| Evan enjoys the spectators facilities. |
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| He's getting stuck in. |
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| Goal mouth action. |
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| Post match team talk from Coach Cody. |
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