Given the scale of loss of a global pandemic that has already seen more American dead than would fill the Rose Bowl three times over, it’s a trifling deprivation for my child to miss out on what would have been her first year playing organized soccer. AYSO, which started in Southern California in 1964, with the late great Sigi Schmid as one of the players on the initial teams, has programs for players as young as 3. Or did, before Covid-19 canceled AYSO programs.
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