I want to be Captain!

Firstly, I would like to state that I know absolutely nothing about soccer and will not be following the world cup this month with any degree of interest. In fact the only soccer game I have watched was one Socceroos game which all the seminary class arrived at the chapel before seminary to watch. I googled this picture and thus discovered what the captain of the Socceroos looks like. Now we have established my lack of knowledge, please read on.


I work one day a week as a teachers aid at my old primary school. The class I assist is the youngest group with kids aged roughly from prep to year two. This means there is always an hilarious moment.

My favourite recently involved one of my youngest prep kids - Jaspa came to school with a new soccer ball made in china even! And so lunch time saw a handful of little boys, a smattering of wonderfully mature and helpful middle kids and me, playing soccer on the oval. Jaspa came out to the oval with his usual excitement that seemed almost uncontainable, practically yelling the rules - there weren't many but any rules are a new concept for soccer at Pine. However the foremost rule was that Jaspa was the Captain, he exclaimed "I am THE CAPTAIN! I am the captain of this team, I am the captain of that team, I am the captain of rules [and then my personal favourite] I am the captain of cheating..."

I loved that he turned something which is seen as so outside of the rules (cheating, that is) into a legitimate factor of the game. I also loved that he could be multiple captains at once.

I wonder, what do I wish had a captain?

A captain of warm socks! (it is sooo cold right now)

A captain of anti YSA ball propaganda?

A captain of that delicious potato, goat's cheese, garlic and prosciutto tart! (yes - there was none at Jocylens today someone should definitely get onto that!)

A captain for laughter! (cliche I know!)

What would you be captain of?

I would be captain of the 'Petie's new cream shoes are Jesse's new love' club (they're amazing ;) )


P.S: do you like my picture? I googled 'Socceroes captain'... clever  I know...