The Search Continues... End of Week 3, Beginning of Week 4

Wish I could say all was bright and cheery in Royboy81 household, but it's not... However, it's not all bad, as I've said before every closed door opens a new one. The soccer family circle is big and sometimes that works to your benefit. As we were attending our final practice/scrimmage with Solar White, I ran into an old workmate back from my first job out of college. I knew her daughter played soccer, but I had not run into her since we played in different leagues and on different clubs. The wife had run into her at a couple of tournaments, but I hadn't. As it turns out, they were heading over to this club for another scrimmage. So we tagged along, knowing that our time with Solar was done.

Oh yeah... well, this was a couple of days after the mad caper that became of our time with the Dallas Texans West. That's a story that is not even as positive as NOT making Solar. We were looking at the #2 team in that division and they were very interested in the daughter... lo and behold, we show up for a practice and they have relegated her to the "new" third team. Now, mind you, we didn't make the Solar team, which I predict will be a force soon in Lake Highlands Classic League, but we didn't miss out by much. The injury really set her back and there were TOO many options for the coach for my daughter to overcome. Plain and simple, he could not go wrong with any of the choices, even if it wasn't my daughter. But this Texans #2 team is nowhere close to the Solar team and now they are telling us that a player they had pursued was now no longer good enough????? Come on, people. Thanks, but no thanks... Movin' on...

This new club looks like it might be a keeper as it's basis is a disbanded D3 Ft. Worth United team. Although the coach is inexperienced, the girls look good. There are some that we know so that's good. I think the coach is a bit inexperienced with respect to North Texas soccer and especially LHGCL, but he is definitely qualified from a pure soccer perspective. We will see how the practices go.

We have not ruled out a couple of other clubs. So here's the rundown:

1. FWFC Red (looking like the likely choice, FWU D3 core; coach is inexperienced, part-time goalie situation)
   
2. DFW Tornados Blue (former D2 FCD team; NO practices since return from Europe, will they make?)
3. Sting West (history with players; some former players are going to FWFC)
   
4. Odyssey Gold (history with the coach and a few players; new team with no LHGCL core)
5. Tejanos Premier (D2 core, been together a while; daughter not too interested, some snotty/snobby attitudes from previous experience)

Wow, still some decent choices. Not where we would have wanted to be at this time, but at least some doors are still open.