December 22, 2007
Congratulations Lamont on your blog!
Lamont is over the moon at being tapped to write a soccer blog at the Baltimore Sun.Please visit it here: Alive and Kicking.
If there's anyone who knows soccer as much as or more than he does, well, they are probably coaching in England's Premiership.
Lamont is ID'd as "Wes Harvey" on his blog because Lamont is mainly a name that family use and Wes is what he goes by at work and in sports. It's Lamont Weston Harvey in full.
By the way, Lamont has coached the women's soccer team I play on, the Comets, since 1997. In that time we've gone from the basement of Howard County's D league to the top of the A league. So he knows plenty about coaching and strategy, having similarly put together his men's team, Tudor Arms, in Anne Arundel County. He's also got an almost freakish recall of stats and the entire choreography of our matches. The hard drive of his brain must be 72.3 gigabytes of "what happened at every soccer game I've ever played."
Right now, we have started a co-ed Wednesday night pickup game at Soccerdome II in Harmans. I am enjoying a respite from the aggressive attitudes of some women's teams in Howard County with our invitation-only workout that is nearly 60 minutes nonstop. Creative goals and out-of-nowhere defensive stops get cheered, and we are working to avoid almost all contact. The closer we get to the freeform play seen on mile after mile of Brazil's beaches, the nearer we stand to the beautiful game.
