Raleigh - Defender of the Imaginary Offense

We went to Raleigh's second soccer game this morning. It was a hoot. She was so excited to play and was the cutest player on the field...but she was not the best...in fact, she has a long way to go. While our Golden Lions were practicing, James and I watched the Purple Panthers practice. Clearly the coach has been working with the team, namely, his daughter Brittany. That little girl was practicing by kicking goals from 3/4 across the field. Our little team was standing 3 feet from the goal taking turns trying to score (with no goalie). Then, the Purple Panthers were practicing drills that included super-star defenders trying to keep the offense from scoring. Hmmm, the golden Lions were too busy jumping up and down when one of the girls made a goal from 3 feet (still no goalie). So the game gets started and James leans over to me and tells me that I won't be able to live vicariously through our daughter because she is the defender of the imaginary offense. I told him that he could live vicriously through Raleigh, I got Sydney. But then the worst of us came out. These girls are 5 and we are getting ticked because the rules say only the coach can be on the field with the players and the Purple Panthers had 2 adults. Of course they were both Brittany's parents and they told her exactly what to do...(BTW, the mom was wearing pink bedazzeled pants - oh, and only 4 girls play at a time - 2 adults - are you kidding me??) . Pink Pants lady called every throwin for the purple team and convienently every time our team had a goal kick or something - it was the end of the quarter. We decided that although we tried to act like we did not care - we really did. Raleigh did do better than last time. She tends to be the one outside of the bunch - not because she is trying to get open, it is just because if someone else has the ball - that is fine with her. She did have a great kick to clear the ball from the bunch one time...it went right into the other teams net...oops. At least we have Sydney:)