Starting this spring Julia, my 12 year old, started playing on a new all girls soccer team. She is the baby on the team but really enjoys the camaraderie of playing with girls again. The team is made up of the best players from different international school around Beijing. They are being coached by none other than one of my best friends here. She used to work for the Women's National team and played college soccer herself. She is just an awesome coach and person in general so I couldn't think of a better person to share her love of the game with my child! (Julia's father most definitely approves too!)
These are a few shots that I took during a scimmage game that they played against ISB varsity. The game ended in a tie, which is pretty darn good for a bunch of 8th graders, a 7th grader and my 6th grader! They are currently working on finding other competition for them to play against and getting them fitted with cool new uniforms and warm ups (compliments of Nike and the Danish embassy).
Julia is still playing on the China Club Football boys team as well, and is really having fun with that too, but sometimes the boys just don't want to talk about clothes and hair!
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| Julia bringing the ball up the left side. |
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| My friend, Coach Hilary Biggs. |
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| Julia in action. (These are borrowed uniform shirts from her school.) |
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| Kelly's new position on the sidelines. He sits as far away as possible so he doesn't "coach" from the sidelines! |
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| Ella hanging out on the sidelines, playing with Hil's daughter and my other friends son! |
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