SPEAKER_03 0:02

And welcome to movement on the app. Guys, and there's next who still think there's 50 your host and Ron. Let's get started.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Hey Ron, yeah. You've been walked into any of this World Cup? A little bit. Very little bit. You know, soccer wasn't really big when we were wrapped up. We but you know, getting bigger. Yeah. We just walked to the United States beat positive media in the round of 32. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

So that's kind of a big thing. Everybody's into the whole soccer scene.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:47

But when we had kids, wasn't that like one of the first sports we had to go through with the it was, you know, they were just trying to reintroduce it. And we thought since this is a big thing right now, maybe we'd kind of talk about, you know, our experience with soccer.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Yeah. And uh so why don't you tell us about when your son was uh soccer player?

SPEAKER_03 1:09

So my son, you know, uh he showed an interest in sports real early on. And and I don't know, I I just for the record, I And not just soccer though. Oh no, well, football in particular. Yeah, for sure. That was what I was getting at. American football. American football. He just wanted to play football. I I wasn't a football player, so just you know, if anybody's like, well, you pushed football on your kid, I it really I really wasn't pushing it that much, okay. But obviously it's on the TV all the time. So he ended up being a Because because if I remember correctly, you did not play football yourself. We won't go into that failure. Okay, okay. We won't I thought I remember I wanted to play football, but that's a whole nother story. So I like football. He kept asking me, he's like, honest to God, probably at four years old, he starts asking me, Hey, uh, can I I want to play football? I'm like, hey, look, they they don't have football at four years old, okay? You know, every year he's like, Can I play football? I was like, You gotta wait. You did buy him a helmet though, and a football team. I bought him a helmet, I bought him a football, he was into it. You run the house him being on a football team is a whole I don't know if we told that story about him being on the football team as his first time when he was the water boy, but that's not the story I'm gonna tell here. To appease him, I said, Well, the only thing you can sign up for right now is soccer. Yeah, it's like, oh, what's soccer? I'm like, uh, it's kind of they call it football, you know. It's like, you know me, we go sign him up. He's five years old. You can't sign up for regular American football at five years old, but you can sign up for soccer. He, you know, we got him all, you know, me with the outfits and everything. You know, he had he he was he was just a kill. He had the little Adidas shoes, shoes, oh yeah, best shin guards. Oh, yeah, the best. Yeah, yeah. He he looked, you should see the pictures of him. He he looks he looks like Mr. Soccer, okay. Yeah, we take him to the soccer where you know, where he was supposed to play for the first time. First time, I want to point out. Like practice. Like, well, it was practice, but it was the first time he was ever even there. Okay. So we we go with uh with him there. He's got his little outfit on, and you know, at this age, they let the little girls and boys play together. Yeah, he goes over with the team and then the instructor, he's got the ball, and you know, he's kicking it around and showing the kids, and the kids are watching. And so he he tells the kids, I'm going to kick the ball for you to get used to kind of running down the field with me. I'm gonna kick the ball, but see if you can get the ball. So if you can picture this, picture like I don't know, 15, 20 little kids, five years old, girls and boys, they're all chasing after the instructor. Yeah, some people call that herd ball. They're all running like a little herd. Well, they're like running behind him in particular. Oh, yeah. So picture how uh geese run in like a triangle formation, like a V. Yeah, like a V. And he's at the beginning, and then you know, the kids kind of fan out fan out. Of course, my son, he goes running to the front, and what does he do? He throws his body, he throws his body into the crowd. Yeah. And like bowling pins, they all start pulling over and hitting each other's head and everything, and they're all crying and stuff. He jumps up looking like John Bellucci in in Animal House, like I think maybe this might be better than I thought. Kids are crying and stuff, so the teacher, you know, the instructor, he's like, you know, yeah, the coach, he's like, you know, okay, and he's picking up kids and everything. He's like, he goes over, he says something to my son, and then everybody was like, okay, all right, we're gonna try it again. So he he starts the V. The V the V.

SPEAKER_02 5:12

My son. He runs right back to the front, throws his body.

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Like takes out tall 20 kids, okay?

SPEAKER_02 5:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

Kids are crying, parents are pointing, little girls are. What's wrong with that guy? And he jumps up again, like Belushi, like it's like instructor comes over, or the coach, he comes over to me, he's like, What is wrong with your kid? I go, I I said, I don't know. I maybe maybe it was an accident or something. Um I said, I said, I I will admit to you, he wanted to play football and uh he wants contact. And he goes, Well, this isn't football. Okay. So get a hold of your kid there and like, come over here. So he comes over to me. I'm like, I'm like, he's looking around, like he's like all smiles and like like, yeah, what? I'm like, what the heck was that? Oh tripped on my shoe. On my shoelace. I'm like, it was a fucking five-year-old. He's a five-year-old kid. I go, shoelace, give me a break. I says, I'm telling, I'm telling you, they're already mad at you. You've already hurt like a couple of these little kids, girls are still crying, people are pointing. I go, no more. Okay. I know what you're doing. Okay, you're throwing yourself at these, you know. No, no, not. I'm on to you. I'm like, I'm yeah. I was like, I says, I'm and he knows me because I always brought him up like there's no, you know, second chance one more time. Yeah, time out.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Time out. And I tell you what, really, if it's this third time, uh, I mean it this time. I'm gonna count to five.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

He he he experienced where I took his toys and destroyed them when I told him one time, like, if you don't do this, this is gonna happen. So he knows. You're serious. This dad doesn't screw around. Okay. Okay. Like I said, look, I'm absolutely serious. You know, I I'm serious. If you do that again, your soccer career is over.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

He goes right back, knocked out all of them, and it was over.

SPEAKER_03 7:35

Expect to be like, he knew he was done. I go, I take it we're going home. He's like, Yeah. Yeah, I don't like soccer. He was always a quick thinker, and he was a man of action. Yes, yes, he was. So you you also had some soccer experience. I did, didn't you?

SPEAKER_01 7:55

I did, and I'll tell you one story about my daughter playing soccer, and I'll play and I'll tell you another one about my son.

SPEAKER_03 8:02

Now, how old was she when this was going on?

SPEAKER_01 8:05

I think she was probably about eight or nine. Okay. At the high end, maybe ten. She was not a really good athlete. Oh I want to impress that upon everyone.

SPEAKER_03 8:15

Okay, well. And you sure you sure you want to be saying this here on the podcast? What if she hears this?

SPEAKER_01 8:22

Well, it's gonna get worse. The stories? Yeah, yeah. Um but I did tell her that we were gonna bring this particular story up and she did give us permission to use it. Right. Well, I okay, then I feel a little better. Yeah, but thanks for checking though. But she really, I'm just gonna say she sucked at soccer. I know it's not good, but she just did. And when you signed up for soccer, it was usually like you had to sign up for the spring and the fall. And that was like one season spring and then fall. Okay. That was all one. And the bad thing about soccer is unless it's like lightning and thundering out, or there's a tornado warning and the sirens are going off, you have to sit there and watch your kids play in this crap.

SPEAKER_03 9:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Okay, well, that's probably true of football too. Well, maybe football is just more fun to watch because there's because there's the hitting. No. So, anyways, so she's playing soccer. She does this for the first year, and kind of the same things were happening that was happening with your son. Herdball in the beginning. The kids don't know about setting up plays or passing, they just want to kick the ball around. Run in a big crowd, right? So spring, it's kind of cold and wet sometimes. Fall could be cold and wet. Every time the season ended, I literally said a prayer to God of thanks that the season was over. Oh, geez. Yeah. Because I couldn't stand it. But I was there like a dutiful dad, dutiful parents. We were there supporting our child. You were saying a prayer. For real. So we go through the second season. It's no better. She's standing there uh on the line before they kick the ball to start or whatever. Whenever they score a goal, they kick again, you know. And she doesn't look like she's a coordinated runner. She's just like kind of twirling her hair. She's twirling her hair in her long hands, you know, and she's talking with the girl on the other side of the line, you know, the some other girl that didn't give a crap about soccer. And um that season ended. And I was saying prayers again. Yeah, because I was so happy that the season was over. So now we go into our third year, and my daughter's still sticking with it, you know. So we get to we get to the end of the fall season, and she's running around, and someone, I think we're like, it's a tie score. Someone kicks the ball to her, and she's kind of in front of the net. Someone kicks the ball to her and she goes to kick it, but she misses the ball like a swing and a miss, like a strike, you know? But the ball hits her body or her leg or something like that, and it bounces directly into the net and it scores a goal. Alright. And we're so happy, and she is really happy. I had it on video, this is great, plus it's the last day of the year. We get in the car and we're driving home after we already said congratulations and all that. We're driving home. She says, Mom, dad, yes. I don't think I want to play soccer anymore. Now, inside my brain, I'm singing praises of hallelujah to Jesus. You know, like I can't believe it. She's finally gonna quit this. She's no good at it, you know. That's terrible. I know it's terrible. I told you it's gonna get worse. So, I but I have to act like I care. Uh right? Yeah. I go, What do you mean? Really? Yeah. I says, Yeah, what do you mean? I go, and what do you mean? And she goes, Well, I don't really like soccer. And she says, but I never scored a goal before. Oh, and she said, I wanted to score a goal before I ever quit. Now I sure wished that she would have scored in the first year. Okay. And if I would have known that that was her dream, her goal, I would have like paid the coach to make that happen.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

I thought you might say to me, but I knew how much you liked it, Dad. So no, no, I wanted her to stick with it.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

She wanted to score a goal, and she did, and she quit, and that was really okay. All right. I would have loved it. So now my son, he is an athlete. Okay, my daughter, when you see her throw a baseball, you know she's not an athlete. Okay. So my son, he always played like she's extremely smart. She is, she is. She is she is on the extremely smart and end of the scale. Maybe that's how things balance out. Right.

SPEAKER_03 13:03

Well, that doesn't mean your son wasn't smart, but no, my son is very smart.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

So I'm talking about how you know she had she was less in one area and she was better in another area. I'm not comparing her to my son, but my son was a very possible to be smart and a good athlete. True. And and I think both of our sons are examples of that. My son was playing the soccer. He always played up in age bracket. I mean, he was like, like if if he was eight to ten, if he was in the eight, he should have been in the eight to ten. He was playing in the 10 to 12 league. And gosh darn it, he was a good little playmaker, and he was out there and he understood the game and he saw everything happen in front of him. He made the right passes, he made the right nice, and it was good, you know. So he kind of liked it compared to my my daughter who didn't like it. So he took his skills uh being a good little playmaker on the soccer field, and he translated that onto the onto the he enjoyed the soccer a little more than say my son or your daughter.

SPEAKER_03 14:03

A lot more. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

And uh, but he became a very good hockey player as well. And I think the fact that he played soccer and he saw all these plays developing up in front of him and stuff like that, I think it helped him make him a really good goalie on the ice.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

Yeah, that makes sense. So there's some there's some carryover for the two games in my mind.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

You know, it is very true, and a lot of professional hockey players have very good, you know, soccer skills as well. Oh, really? I did not know that. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:31

You know, we thought we'd relate our soccer experiences to the situation now because it's kind of cool what's going on with the World Cup. We hope that team USA does well.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

Go USA.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Go USA. And thanks for listening. Thanks.

SPEAKER_03 14:44

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