Six year-old Soccer

Watching six year olds playing soccer for the first time brings back so many memories. Seeing Pele play in the 70s with Santos at the old Memorial Stadium. Being awestruck when 55,000 fans crammed RFK stadium to watch an NASL game. Soccer is a game played by children. Children who end up never playing once they get older. Children whose parents maybe never played.

The future of soccer in America? Is it three on three with six year olds scoring goals and worring more about the post game snack than the score? Is it with the MLS? Whose games are sometimes less interesting than the six year olds. How can such a simple game still be so foreign? Will we ever become the superpower of the pitch?

I have to go get ready to coach the gray team, we play light blue and I need to scout them.