School sports are not big in Hong Kong, which in many ways is a pity. So it was with great delight that Aiden found out that his school was putting a soccer team together to play in an ESF schools tournament, that took place on Friday late afternoon an evening. Aiden is year 8 now, and his age group for the tournament was comprised of year 7 to 9. Then, delight of delights, he went to the trials and got picked as the striker for his team. I don't know a huge amount about soccer, but I can see from the way that he plays (and he does play 5 days a week - not counting every morning before school, and every other moment available) that he is getting more and more skilled - so it was game on. For once the timing was great for me, I arrived back from a trip to India on Friday afternoon, had a shower, and headed down to the school to watch. What an absolute delight. It was a beautiful evening, cool and still, the atmosphere was great - lots of people down there to watch, lots of teams, and he played like an absolute king, scoring a total of 4 in the four games they played, sadly getting knocked out in the semis going down in a penalty shootout (much to his quiet delight, not from his turn being saved - that was buried in the back of the net). I got a few pics, though none of his goals specifically - that all being a bit too exciting for a parent to be looking through a camera lens.
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| Fetching in the midfield, so cool to see him playing in school colours for the first time. |
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| Powering away from the defense onto a through-ball |
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| Getting up in the box for a header (hand of god? Nope) |
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He's such a social boy, jamming with his mates, many who he knows from other schools, but who he plays club football
or rugby with. |
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| Advancing through the midfield |
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| Cooling off with his mates between games. |
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| With some of the boys from his team. |
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