Thoughts on Indoor Soccer

This is WAAAY more fun for the littlest kids since there is no out of bounds. Play it off the wall, play it off the parents. Only whistle blowing is "no hands", or if they get so completely glommed up in the corner that they are in danger of crushing each other like a mosh pit.

Of course there are the kids that have no clue what's going on and are checking out the mats on the walls or staring up at the overhead lights as the ball rolls right by them.

Then comes the grade schoolers. MUCH more competitive and many of them actually have shin guards and know how to play soccer. They even do headers, and when the ball hits them they don't start crying.

What I've noticed most is that there's a direct inverse correlation between the size of your legs and your soccer skills. The kids with the scrawniest matchstick legs are the ones that are the best soccer players. If you have sturdy legs, you are not good at soccer.

Of course the blue team is 50% girls, and they are consistently beating the pants off the red team, even when the red team is down a couple of players and the adult coaches are subbing themselves in. I'm talking scores like 6 to 1 in an hour game. Go girls!