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My son's first competitive match

so nice :APPLAUD: surely u know him, his name is maidin from roubaix near belgium, maybe our future "zizou", he have his skills 4 sure, hope he's not into your son's tournament :D
YouTube - ZIDANE A 6 ANS !!! MAGIQUE !!!
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That litle guy is terrific.
I saw one kid who was really, really much better than all the other players i've seen uptil now, but unfortunately for him , his team mates were not that good.

My son never has to play in the national team or become a professional football player, i just he enjoys himself.
As a matter of fact he's the "worst" player of his team, but that is because he's the shortest and skinniest and doesn't has the power of some of his team mates...he is the only one in the team who has vision an can give good passes however...
 
Well that is surely better than just being good at running around all day? Make sure he focuses on that and maybe as he gets older he'll 'fill out' and even up with the other boys.
 
It does not matter if he does not make it. (Unfortunately we have a lot of very pushy parents here in England who always ruin kids games). I'm one hundred percent sure Gerd you are not one of those.

Making friendships and having fun and keeping healthy (considering the growing problem of obesity all across Europe esp.in Britain) are great benefits in themselves.

If he has the talent then I'm sure a club will come calling (but as in England its not always the best thing to happen).

I hope you tell him 'control the ball, don't let the ball control you' Gerd ! ;)

Warm congratulations to your boys. It would indeed be something to treasure if they make it to the finals at the former Heysel stadium. :APPLAUD:
 
What i hope for those litle guys, is that they can stay together in the same team until they're 17 or 18 years old.
That must be great 7 or 8 kids from the same class who are in the same football team and amuse themselves...
I'm pretty sure my son will not become a football player, the only thing i want him to be later is being happy...
 
gerd said:
What i hope for those litle guys, is that they can stay together in the same team until they're 17 or 18 years old.
That must be great 7 or 8 kids from the same class who are in the same football team and amuse themselves...
I'm pretty sure my son will not become a football player, the only thing i want him to be later is being happy...
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u're a great papà, Gerd :))
 
Yesterday's 2-5 win means that my son and his friends can play the final at the Heysel right before the Belgian Cup final.
A youth team of Cercle Brugge in that final.
As a father and youth coach i'm pretty proud, but things got spoiled considerably because yesterday "my" boys were confronted with the ugly side of football: cheaters and bad loosers.

They had to play a team who needed to beat them in order to get to the final. A draw xas enough for our team (but that's academical because one never sees draws at that age).
It turned out that they fielded a team with 5 boys who were 8 years old against our 5 and 6 year old players. That in itself was not very fair, but the referee was not exactly unbiased. Their opponents played very rough against kids that are two or three years younger and i turned out that the ref was the father of one of the opponents.

Rupel Boom (that is the name of their opponents) took te lead after a couple of minutes and our team equalized 1-1. They took the lead once again afer a blatant foul of the attacking player, but right before half time our team equalised.

In the second half (and that is a big surprise given the age difference) it turned out that our team were the better team both fysical and in team spirit...they scored 3 more goals and did not conceed any more...

After the match we discovered that the boys' dressing room was locked and that the officials of the other team had lost the key...we had to wait 30 minutes and the other refused to serve them a drink...i think it's important to show those kids what fair play is, what happened yesterday was exactly the opposite...

But still, we're in the final...this will be something unique for our kids...they will never forget that...no matter if they win or loose...
 
I agree Nick, but it's just worse when the youngest possible football players are confronted with it.
My son Thomas still sleeps with a Teddy bear (which he named Eto'o)...that says it all i think.
 
Another great win yesterday (in a match that did not matter anymore, but five year old boys haven't got the faintest clue if a match matters to get into finals...every match is a final for them).

We had to play the youth team of first division club KV Mechelen. This team also fielded kids who are born in 2002 and 2001 whereas our team entirely consists of boys born in 2003. They had quite a few black players who were really giants compared to them (one of these days i wil post a picture of my son "duelling" with one of those giants)and at first they were intimidated (although the other team was very fair). With 15 minutes to go they were 3-0 down and i was convinced that they would loose that game (their first defeat). But then my son (the smallest boy on the pitch), did something extraordinary, he made this run from inside his own half, nutmegged a "giant" black opponent and gave a delightfull litle assist to one of his team mates: 1-3. From then on, they never looked back and won 6-3...as coach i was over the moon...something i will not forget for a long time...as a father, well i guess i was proud, although he was far from the man of the match, but his run was fabulous...afterwards he said that he was afraid of these "big boys" (who turned out to be very pleasant after the match).
 
Just read this thread from the start, you must be very proud, firstly as a dad and now as a coach.

Although you son as you say isn't the best or my physical, it does sound like he is holding his own, and must be doing something right.

If he continues to try and play football the rest of it will come.

All the best, and keep the updates coming
 
Read all the topic today, i am 14 but i just hope i started playing football at a team from a young age, which seems to be the best age to play real football.

Hope you post videos from the Final.
 
Thanks for the nice reactions there will be no videos of the final, myabe some photographs.

About Thomas, i wonder if he isn't good because today he was asked to play with a team of older boys from the same club.

I asked him and he declined...he only wants to play with his friends...
 
Great to see your son just enjoying the game and the fun part of it with his friends. Hope that your team will have a great fun filled final and you can keep on showing the boys the real meaning of football and fun Gerd!!!
 
The season is over for my son's team.
It all ended with a litle bit of an anti-climax.
I've posted here that they would play a final, just before the Belgian Cup final.
It turned out that that was a litle optimistic.
The Belgian FA changed his mind and the final tournament between 16 teams (which is not what i posted here, but it seems information is not the strongest point of the Belgian FA) was played this weeken in Mechelen (which was a good thing all things considered, we live only 6 kilometres from Mechelen).

Our team had to play a final tournament with 16 teams.
They easily won their first match 12-1 (against Morlanwelz)
Then they faced Germinal Beerschot and beat them 8-0
In the semi-final they faced Cercle Brugge and beat them 10-5
The final was played against a team (Rupel Boom) who had won all their matches without conceding a single goal. They had a fantastic goal keeper.
The match ended 0-0 but our boys lost with penalties...3-0

They can be considered the second best team of the country in their age category. This is more remarkable if you consider the fact that from the 16 teams who played the final tournament they were the only team with all players born in 2003. Other teams had (most) players born in 2002 and 2001...

But still i'm a litle bit disappointed.
My son enjoyed himself and as captain of the team he had the honour to take the cup from the hands of Jan Ceulemans (the second teams also gets a cup).

When he started to play, nobody would have dreamed that it would end like that and that with a team were the 8 players are in the same school and 7 of the 8 players even in the same class...quite remarkable.

I've seen a few big talents and now i know that in my son's team nobody is especially talented but they win their matches because they have great team spirit and never give up (every match the first half was close, but they usually destroyed their opponents in the second half).

In the final they were also the better team (even the other team admitted that) but they had this really fantastic goal keeper (a real blach pearl) and our boys were exhausted after having played four matches (36 minutes) in one day... when we were in the car going home, he already was asleep with his medal and his cup...

I'm a very proud but a litle bit disappointed father...

PS: they will not have the chance to win next year because in my son's club only the 5 and 6 year olds are playing this tournament...next year he's too old according to his club.
 
this must have been such a great experience for both u and your son, Gerd.
and the picture of him sleeping exhausted in the car, hugging his cup, is just sweet.

too bad he won't have another chance next season. aren't there any tournaments for "older" kids?

however it was really a nice read, my friend. thanks for sharing this great experience with us :))
 
Next year there is a regular league i think...which means they play teams from the same area...
 
Fantastic Gerd, great read, well done to the boys, great acheivement to finish the 2nd best team in the age group, so very near to being the winners.

I hope they keep playing next year, and you keep us updated with the progress.
 
This thread has been great to read, listening to the progress of your son Gerd. I wonder if he could imagine he's got fans from all over the world on here :D

Fantastic that they did so well in the final tournament and unlucky that they had to lose on penalties. When I was a kid we made it to a cup final and lost on penalties as well, it was horrible and especially after playing extra time on a full pitch as well.

Makes me wish I could build a time machine and go and do my childhood all over again. Played in a team from when I was 4 to 14 and loved training on Friday nights and matches on Sunday mornings, I really miss all that.
 
Well matherto, in the end they did not really care...they enjoy playing football and they don't care much about the result.

Of course that would be different if they would loose all matches 20-0 and if they could not "play football" because their opponents are too strong.

Yesterday evening my son was talking about Barcelona-Chelsea. This is a huge match in out house: my son is a bog Barcelona fan and my daughter (who is the better football player and the bigger freak) is a Chelsea fan.

My son was convinced (just like my daughter) that Barcelona would tear apart Chelsea like they did with Lyon and Bayern Munchen.

And then he said something really interesting (he's six year's old): well even if Barcelona would not win against Chelsea, this match could be more enjoyable because there is a real match going on. And then he reflected upon his lost final...he said that that was the match he had enjoyed most because it was difficult and even if they had lost, he knew they could cope with that...

He's wrong regarding professional football (i think) but regarding his match i think he said something damn sensible for a six year old.
 
Gotta agree with others man especially with matherto about your son having fans around the world! :D lol

This thread has been f'n AWESOMe to read!! What an adventure! Great experience for you as a loving dad and him as what seems to be a very mature kid!
 
Jeez, just read this.

Great read mate, good to see your boy and his team do so well.

You must be so proud.


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