Goooooo Hurricanes!
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009I’m almost done capturing my family’s old Beta tapes in digital format. Tonight I came across one of the last of the Beta era, a fifteen-minute tape from 1991 of my brother playing soccer. He was four.
Four-year-old soccer, I have to say, is pretty great. They play six on a side, no goalies, on a quarter-size field with something like a size two ball. The games are short, probably twenty or thirty minutes, with two halves. Having to aim for the opposite goal in the second half seemed to be just at the limit of four-year-old comprehension, so I imagine the only reason to even have halves is so there’s time for the Hi-C-and-orange-wedge break.
