11 year old observations

It can be pretty amusing to watch 11 year old girls play soccer. It is an age where a lot of girls are still pretty scared of the ball, so screeching was abundant.

It is also an age where the size of a girl can vary so greatly. You could almost pick which team was going to win, just on the size of their players, something you can't normally do with soccer, but could easily be done with today's games.

I'm continually amazed at how much easier it is to ref some of these younger games. When people are scared of the ball, they are also scared of hard contact with each other. The combination of the two things leaves most infractions on the game easy to call.

I'll be looking forward to seeing some games that are closer though. Tonight's games were 10-1 and 9-1. It wasn't much in the area of entertainment.