Over Before It Begins?

If you look all around, you will notice the soccer fields are full of little ones running around.
Soccer season is upon us.
Sophia is finally old enough to join in the soccer fun.
After being a spectator at many of Lily's games, Sophia now gets to be a participant...

She was so eager to get her shin guards and cleats on and just kick the ball around...

See how happy she is...

After a few minutes of kicking the ball with us, her coach called her over.
Practice was set to begin.
They started by playing a few games.
Simon Says was the first game...

Which was then followed by a couple more games.
Sophia was really into it.
Joe and I got excited watching her because for the first time, we got to see how fast she was.
We also thought she was just aggressive enough to play this sport.
After all, it is a sport where you chase people down and kick the ball away from them.

This is, unfortunately, where we lost her.
She could not believe that kids are actually allowed to take the ball from you.
She wasn't familiar with the game and she took it personally.

Within ten minutes of her very promising start, she was done...

The last 45 minutes of practice were spent just trying to get her on the field to listen to her coach.
It was rough.
There really was no convincing her.

Yup, I am pretty certain that Sophia's little soccer career is over before it has even begun.
Now what are we going to do for the next ten weeks?