By Darren Pecoraro
If someone would have told me I was to become a soccer coach
in my middle age, I would surely have called them crazy. I hadn’t played
soccer, watched soccer, or even picked up a soccer ball until I had my own
children. When I was a child, it was baseball first, with football and
basketball a distant second, and soccer not even on the radar. But as my young
children began to take an interest in it, and then began playing it, I
inevitably found myself in the position of assistant coach. After a season or
two, I felt I could do it better, and decided to have my own team as head
coach, which I did for five seasons. So with my two boys firmly ensconced in
their respective travel soccer seasons, and myself in retirement, I though it
would be fun to recall a few of my favorite moments as a recreation league
soccer coach.
