Thunder Cup

Jacob and Cameron

Going in for a goal

Dribbling

Cameron attended the MN Thunder Soccer Camp this past week. He attended half days in the Rugrat group. The Thunder is Minnesota's professional soccer team. He had a really wonderful group of coaches who are members of the Thunder and really know their stuff and work great with the kids. Each player recieved their own soccer ball, two pairs of socks, shorts, two t-shirts (blue and white) and a backpack. They had to wear their uniforms each day and really learned how to be good members of a team. In addition to learning the game of soccer, they had fun events throughout the week like jersey day, water fun day, wacky dress up day, a juggling contest, and a ball decorating contest. Cameron worked hard on the ball decorating contest and covered his soccer ball with flags of some of the countries in the international soccer league.

On Friday, Cameron competed in the Thunder Cup. His team (Team Korea) came in second for his division. He played hard and scored two goals (one in the semi-finals and one in the finals). Here is a video of one of Cameron's goals.

Cameron quickly became friends with a boy named Jacob. Jacob's family is also in the process of adopting a little girl from Korea. Mommy and daddy met his parents at the Korea Night program last month but the parents didn't introduce the kids they just bonded on their own. Everyday they were so excited to see each other and play soccer together. Jacob was on Cameron's team and therefore they were named Team Korea.

Cameron is already looking forward to next year's camp and maybe playing soccer this fall too.