Tonight, during the last regular-season game of his fourth season of play, Liam finally scored his first soccer goal.
What amazes me most is that I was there to see it. This season he and Mallory have played at the same time on pitches at opposite ends of the complex, and I have occasionally received a text from Chad indicating that Liam is playing a period and hustled my way down to watch a bit - but I have largely not seen his games this year, because someone needs to be there with Mallory. Tonight, Liam was playing a makeup game to compensate for one that was rained out earlier in the season. Mallory's league does not play makeup games and so we were all on the field to watch Liam. After a fairly dismal first half of the game, he had a breakaway, gave the ball a boot...
...turned to get visual confirmation that we had indeed witnessed history being made... and then returned to his usual stoic face as the teams set up again at midfield. The strong, silent type. But he couldn't contain his happiness. He kept breaking out into silly grins at random moments:
And then I guess he decided it was such fun that he did it again! This time there was more luck involved; Liam kicked the ball and it bounced off a purple player into the net. Liam got credit for the goal. Here's the ref taking down his info.
It was a pretty darn exciting night for the little guy. More random smiles.
Four seasons of toting my camera to the field have finally paid off; I got a shot sequence of the all-important first goal. So happy for Liam that this day came.
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