Qatar Will Pay – On the Soccer Field

When I was a young soccer coach, my U-11 travel team was in the lowest division of 3 in the Southwest Cleveland Suburbs. At the end of the year, my assistant coach said that we were ready for a local tournament, maybe one sponsored by a lower division team on the East Side of Cleveland. He warned me that if we competed in a Select Tournament, a level above the travel divisions, our gains on the field would be negated if we got murdered in a tournament we weren’t ready for…. Which brings me to