Contracted Soccer Mentors

William has an interest in Soccer. Many of his classmates are playing Soccer this year and he wants to join them. However, we'd be coming into the middle of the season and we didn't want to ramp up the calendar content so fast, so we didn't put him in for the first year.

We do want to break the cycle of Putaansuu incompetence with the sport, though, so we are planning to put him into Soccer for the new year (BTW, the school year starts April 15th). We want him to have some basic level of skill to enter with, though, but we had a dilemma. Neither Caroline or I know much of anything about Soccer other than it's dangerous to attend a cross country rivalry game in England or Brazil...

So, we decided to contract out William's Soccer Mentoring to some of the daughters of our friends that are currently playing Soccer. It's a win-win situation. William gets quality training and coaching, the girls get some first rate experience in coaching and training and an income to boot.

This is a video of William training with Charla. At the end, you hear the four o'clock chimes that signal that unaccompanied kids need to go back home. During the summer, the music moves to five o'clock. For several months, William kept an eye on the clock and would head outside to listen to the music. We were confused for a while when it moved from five o'clock to four o'clock. Many days sitting out there wondering where the music was...