Saturday 14th October 2023
Author: Mike Hillary
Our U7 girls took part in their first friendly match against a St Albans City girls’ team on Saturday the 14th October 2023.
The team of Jessica, Carmen, Neus, Georgina, Ava, Claudia, Sophie and Alice were taking on a more experienced team who are already playing league games. With some of our girls only taking up football 5 weeks previous this was a fantastic performance that showed how hard they’re trying in training and learning really quickly in a game situation – the improvement even within this match from the first quarter to the last was incredible.
As a team they kept trying, some crunching tackles(!), working hard for each other and at least Alice and Sophie were unlucky not to get a goal for us against a very good goalkeeper and some woodwork! It was really nice to see them apply some of the skills they’ve been practising with stepovers, drag backs and even a Cruyff turn thrown into their performance. The most pleasing part for the parents and the coaching team was they all enjoyed themselves, despite conceding a few early goals, and kept passing, tackling and dribbling right until the very end of the 4th quarter. Standout performances from Jessica in goal and Sophie in midfield deserve a special mention.
Well done to the whole team on a fantastic performance.
