USWNT ONE SHOOTS

Part.1 Lord Help Me - Alex Morgan

Y/n's POV
"Why do I have to come with you guys" My youngest complain for the one hundred time the last five minutes

"River I have told you four times. Rayna have a game and aunt Rose can't take care of you today so you have to come with us because you can't be home alone for 4 hours" I say getting annoyed

"But I'm 8" He say waving his arms around in the back seat of my car

"Exactly. To young to be home alone for that long" This got him to shut up until we arrive at the soccer field.

My oldest child out of two Rayna have a soccer game today and as her coach I need to be there. She is 13 and has been playing for 6 years now and has it's the only thing she talk about. Soccer this and soccer that. Don't get me wrong I love soccer and has done my whole life. I just can't name a single player and maybe like three teams so I don't understand what she is talking about half the time

Any way. Today they are playing a team from Alhambra which is a small city out side of LA just like Diamond Bar where we live. Rayna usually had one game a week and two trainings while River don't really do any sport. He spend a lot of time skateboarding with his friends but nothing competitive. Right now at least

When we got to the field we were the first once there which isn't a surprise. So while I go grab the balls and some cones for the warm up Rayna and River walk over to the bench where our team will have our things and where the subs will sit.

When I come back with everything a few of my players has arrived so everyone is talking while slowly getting ready. River even joins in on some conversations because most of the girls know him at this point because when my sister Rose can't take care of him he will come with us

So the other team arrives and the rest of my players. I start the warm up and then talk to the referee as well as the other teams coach and let me tell you he is a night mare. Screaming at his girls when the pass isn't perfect, rude to me because 'women shouldn't coach soccer. They can barley play it' and just an over all bitch

After I have calmed myself down just to not slap him across the face I walk back to my girls and tell them the starting 9 players. We then go through what we need to improve from our last game and then lastly we do some sprints to get ready for the game

A just a few minutes later the game has started. To no belief River is distracted by the three girls on the bench so I can have my head in the game and try to coach my team.

The other team plays rough and my girls start to get tired way to quick. So when the first of three periods ends I call all girls over.

"Okey. They aren't playing any pretty soccer and that is something we need to take advantage of. They usually don't look at the ball so we need to get the ball moving and not try to dribble the players. We need to pass around them so that they have to run. Okey?" All the girls nod and they seam to have gotten what I said

"Good. Now I want Olivia to come off so that Sofia can come in at eight back while also Alexandra goes off and Roma go on. You get to rest a few more minutes before I put you in" I say looking at Nessa who is the third sub. She just nod before we huddle up and 9 of my 12 girls walk onto the field again

The second period pass by like a.....I don't know I was trying to be poetic. It went well any way. We turned the 0-2 loss into a 4-2 lead and now we just need to keep this going into the third and last period

I don't have anything to tell the girls so I just let them drink their water before walking back into the field as the game start up for the last 20 minutes

But it doesn't take long until River walk over and pull my shirt making me turn to him

"This is boring. I want to go home" I say giving me a sad face