Soccer Season is Over

The soccer season is over! At least for the AYSO in our little town of Harbor Beach. I look forward to soccer every year and every year I think it could have continued for another week.

This year was an exception. I volunteered to be a referee instead of a coach. Truthfully, I did not enjoy it as much as coaching. It was not because I didn't like hearing parents criticize my calls. Rather it had to do with the fact that I was not in the thick of the planning and training.

With reffing, it is all spur of the moment. With coaching it is a bit like chess. You train your players in a certain way. You assign positions. You shout commands (mostly unheeded) on the field. You feel involved. As a ref you must be above the fray. I guess I like being a partisan too much to enjoy reffing.