So I’ve been working with the real head coach (RHC) and learning a lot. He takes off in a few days and then I have to be in charge for a while. He’s really helped in terms of using specific drills for a specific goal. Even after only a week I can see improvement in some players ability that we’ve been targeting. With him gone I won’t be able to work tactics and skills as much as the RHC, but I can get them in shape. We are going to run. This will help me get in shape for the season too. We’ll see how they, the players, respond to that.

So a friend of mine became the soccer coach boys and girls at a local school. The problem that he’s having is that for the two weeks before the girls season starts he has to be in China for a wedding. This is where I come in. I’m the stand-in “head” coach for those two weeks. This will be the most time I’ve ever spent with teenage girls. Even when I was a teenage boy I didn’t spend this kind of time with this many females (going to an all boys school). This could be an education or a nightmare or both.