soccer, again

Had a productive day, coaching wise. Well, I was able to get some stuff done. I faxed the coach of one CPS school about scheduling a game for the spring. The first time I got a position number (meaning hired for real) was @ this school, and he as the first coach I worked with. I see him from time to time, and last spring a coaches meeting I had to make he was there. So, I faxed him about a possible game we maybe could set up. His team would be - i'm guessing -not quite as good as mine this spring, so it would be an ideal tune up for the conference play later inthe season.

Three neices and one nephew has played for another coach - a Catholic League team, and very good - that I also approached today. I am not trying to schedule a game with them - we would be so smokerd - but they are involved in a summer league that for several reason mite be good for us. Again - we are not quite @ the level that other teams in the summer league are. However, the kids who play in the summer league are generally not on a club team -that's why they have these summer leagues. If I can get most of my squad out there, we should be competitive against these suburban and Cahtolic teams. But only if we get a heavy squad of girls interested inplaying. It may be a disaster. Gotta talk to that coach and let him brief me.

I really want them involved in the summer league because I think the competition will be good for them. This year should be a good year - we have lots of returning seniors, and ..... well ...... I'm the coach now. If we finish in the top three of our league (the First Division of the Chicago Public League) this coming year, we will be 'promoted' to the top division -called the Premier League (well, #3 has to ply the promotion/relagation game - so EPL,* haven't we become). The premier League has all of the top ta,well, eight of the top teams - who are murder to pay. So, for me, to play top competition in the summer will help us get to where we are going in the future.

Finally, a low rent league for the young girls. I am trying to start a third team, a freshmen team, here. There is a summer league in which low level girls can play. It's called A.Y.S.O., and I deem it a perfect context for my freshman to get wetted into the game.

But- will they do it. It is extra, and if this were Waubansie Vaeely, well, the girls would already be oin club teams. I feel that I have to start the program here -I'm beyond ready- and part of that is saying to the girls "I want for you the same that the girls @ Marist. No more, no less. Wait, wait. Much much more, and nothing less." The indoor team will be something like $60-90 a half season, AYSO is like $80 for the summer. And the summer league? Wating for a call from a coach.

Exciting times.

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*said in Valley speak