It was looking like an upset but the girls are coming thru.
As for kids playing soccer discussion, I wasn't a huge soccer player as a kid or followed the sport, but every parent told me how great a sport it was for kids.
I've put my kids in baseball, basketball, football, tennis, and soccer and Soccer is EON'S beyond any of those other youth organized sports.
Like others have stated, it's a very easy game for kids to play, keeps them active, and pretty much is inexpensive. You just pay for the membership in the league and uniforms. And from my experience, my kids have bonded more with their soccer teammates more than the other sports. It's almost like a special comradery amongst the soccer kids and parents that don't exist in other sports.
On the adult side, soccer parents and coachs for youth soccer are so much more excellent than the other sports. Most are professionals, have their day jobs, and volunteer (as myself) as coaches or other assistants. Also, like in other youth sports, you don't see many a-hole parents who live thru their kid wanting them to be the next Jordan or Montana or Jeter.
And the sport is mostly safe because of the safety precautions parents and organizers take. I may have posted this before but when I had put my son into pee-wee football, there was an incident on another team during a game where a 6 year old kid had suffered a concussion. I mean WTF IS THAT! Concussions at 6 years of age is f***ed up!
Baseball is ok, but they want you to do 4 days a week of practice / games/ volunteering here where I live (we have good weather all year round so baseball here starts in FEB and goes thru JUNE). And you have to do that POS Snack Shack - you other baseball parents know what I am talking about.
Also, in baseball, you have some really trashy type of parents I've had in my experience that push their kids way too far. Our baseball is co-ed and we had this parent with issues force her 1st grade girl into baseball to 'meet boys'. ya, that's f***ed up. She's whoring her 7 year old out at 1st grade. Poor kid is overweight too and the dumbass mother keeps critizing her for it, plus the mom puts lipstick and makeup on the girl for every game. F, enough of that.
Basketball has been the 2nd best experience behind soccer for me. Only problem with its very short where I live, games and season length.
