u/ConfusionQuick1538

My daughter is 9 years old and coming to the end of her second Academy year at a competitive club. She’s been on the second team and her coach is leaving back to Scotland at the end of this season. The coach who is remaining asked her to play up with the first team this last weekend in a tournament as a sub goalie. First game he doesn’t Play my daughter and plays current goalie. Second game he has my daughter start and the normal goalie do second half. He then had my daughter play in goal the entire game for the next two games. She did amazing the first day and outperformed the current goalie. She got scored on 3 times in first half of last game on day 2 but he kept her in and gave her player of the day along with two other girls both days. Curious if anyone has insights into what the coach might be thinking or if I can glean anything from his decisions. I would think he would have put in their normal goalie when things were down in last game. Feels like he’s actively comparing them.