Little boys play soccer

A boy is I feel more than any one presentation and an adult little boy, the male age regressed version just the same because if he was anything like those boys I grew up with he was sporty and not just academic.
We played mainly association football aka Soccer both as an improvised on spare grass or even a quiet street kickabout making goals from coats piled up in our regular play clothes to wearing a actual football strip although ours was not an era hung up on expensive replica strips that is an issue for bio-kids and their parents today.
We were a strip because we saw ourselves at that point having a game more by the rules and although it wasn't our word for it in a way we were going about things in a more professional way.
The other way was a organized match which was certainly the case at school as every boy who could just about walk played as it was the Autumn/Winter team sport for boys or if you played 'lads and dads' on Sundays after Saturday team soccer which as the name suggested was run by grown ups for us to play, learn more about our game and have fun. 
It wasn't unknown for us to wear our strips even if we were not playing.