Foot skills and ball control

Today during street league, I got schooled by a bunch of seven year olds. No joke. They are so good at soccer. We had a big group of kids show up, so we divided them by age. The kids above the age of eleven went with Anthony, Bri and Samito to do GRS games, and Matebalo and I took the little ones, ranging in age from about 5-10. Since they’re too young to understand concepts about HIV/AIDS, we just threw together a game. I played for one team, and I swear these kids were pulling moves on me the whole time. It wasn’t bumble bee soccer like you see in the States, where kids just chase the ball wherever it goes; they knew how to pass, dribble and do impressive fakes. And most of them were barefoot. I think for many them, this may have been their first organized game, because they mostly grow up just playing in the streets. But, they even argued with the "ref's" calls (in Sotho, of course). I eventually stepped out and reffed with Matebalo, because I couldn’t handle the humiliation of losing the ball to a barefoot seven year old with better foot skills than I'll ever have.