5 minutes: on the PS4

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As long as there are games to play it is not over. – Alex Ferguson

In control

My kids tend to be outside playing more than they are inside so I do not mind if they have the odd 30 minutes or so on computers or game consoles. My sons favourites at the moment are FIFA 15 on the PS4 (what he is playing here) or Minecraft on the iPad.

Team selection

Selecting his players, making transfers, planning his tactics, he loves managing his team just as much as playing the game itself.

Serious moments

It can be serious business waiting to see if your transfer bids have been successful!

Concentration

Then it is time to concentrate on a game, at this point I was told my time was running out, 2 minutes and counting.

In the distance

Above and beyond

Intense moments

He started to get fidgety as the game was nearing an end and seconds later after a good win for his team he jumped up and headed outside to practice his kick ups in the garden.

5 minutes: At football

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Lifestyle, Photography, Project Life, son

“I eat football, I sleep football, I breathe football, I am not mad, I am just passionate” – Thierry Henry

The 5 Minute Project is curated by Dana Pugh and began as a her personal project on her family blog. To participate, you simply document 5 minutes of your life. The spirit of this project is keep it unplanned and unstaged, just 5 ordinary minutes. Of course, 5 minutes can be extraordinary, too, but you can see beauty in the mundane, it is not intended to just be 5 minutes of a portrait sitting.

I thought this sounded perfect for me, my kids are getting older now and they are less and less happy (well my son anyway) to be in front of the camera, but when I limit them to 5 minutes I might just stand a chance………………I can see my son bringing out his stopwatch, setting it to the 5 mins and telling me time is up when the alarm goes.

Todays 5 minutes was taken during my sons team football match on Sunday. He is football (soccer) crazy, the quote by Thierry Henry really sums up his view so well. He has been playing for this club since he was 7 and now at 10 he plays at the weekend at least one day for a club. He trains 3 times a week, one at Chelsea Invitational, one for his club and the other is playing Futsal (as you can see he eats sleeps and breathes football). He also plays for his school when they have matches! When he is not playing football he loves managing his team on the PS4 (FIFA 15 game) and deciding on tactics with his Match Attack card collection, I am sure these activities will feature at some point in the future for my 5 minutes.

Lets just say it was rather an action packed 5 minutes, my son was all over the pitch (as he always is both attacking, defending and in this game alone he set up 5 goals!). A fantastic win of 6v4 for this his final game with this club. This game was just a friendly as his team was disbanded by the club owners at the beginning of January, so it was nice for them to go out on a high 🙂