Seamus the 5-year-old soccer god

I just wanted to take a minute to recap Seamus' soccer season. As you know from my note back in July. Seamus had an amazing year on the field. I think it is safe to say that every parent of a 4-6 year old child who plays soccer now knows who Seamus is. And mostly for good reasons.
His team didn't lose a game all season. I think they played 10 times. They scored something like 60 goals in total. Pretty good for only 10 games.

Oh yeah, and Seamus scored over 50 of the 60 goals.

His coach came over the other night to drop off his and Tara's trophies. While he was there we reminisced about the season. He was telling me a story about the last game. It's a very relaxed league, and the coaches work together to make sure everyone has a good time. So at one point, after Seamus had scored his normal 4 goals in a single quarter, his coach put him in goal. And naturally as soon as he went in there the other team couldn't find the net. Finally the opposing coach asked our coach to pull Seamus from goal so his kids would have a chance to score. Our coach answered, sure, but where can I put him? If I put him on defense your kids won't get near the goal. And if I put him on offense your kids won't see the ball. And I have to let him play - he's already sat out a full quarter! So he stayed in goal. And the other team didn't score.

Just last night Seamus was talking about the season. And when it came to the overall results he said "I won every game." But Seamus, don't you mean your team won every game? "No." he said "I won them." I wanted to say he was a part of a team, that he can't win without his teammates, etc. And some day that will be true. But for today the honest truth is that he probably would go undefeated as a 1-man team. Crazy!

This is his last season of instructional play (thank goodness). I am very interested to see what he does on the bigger fields with the bigger kids. You can bet I'll be bringing my camera!