Futsal 2018

Cat played futsal for the first time this winter and she loved it!  Futsal is the baby that results from a basketball parent and a soccer parent.  It's soccer, but played with a smaller ball on a small indoor court by opposing 5-person teams.  There's no offsides and the game is much faster-paced and high-scoring than soccer.  It's a great way for soccer players to compete during the cold winter months and really helps them with their ball control since the ball moves so fast.

Almost everyone on Cat's team signed up to play, so her soccer team ended up with 2 futsal teams.  They competed against teams that were a year older, but even then both of the teams won all of their games easily, except when they had to play against each other!

The facility had one futsal court and a few volleyball courts.
The kids took advantage of the empty volleyball court after one of their games.

There was a volleyball tournament going on right beside Cat's game the first time
we came to watch, and my younger kids were much more interested in volleyball
than they were futsal, haha.

Cat was kind enough to invite Eliza's best friend and Jack's best friend to
come to one of her games.  Jack and Eliza loved having them there.
(Okay, they were Cat's good friends, but they made friends with the younger kids
very quickly!  It reminded me of when I used to think myself friends with my older
sibling's friends because they were so nice to me when I was a little.)

Here are a few highlights of the season, with thanks to our friend
Teri who came to some of Cat's games and sent me several videos!



I wouldn't call this last little gem a "highlight," but I think it's definitely worth watching.