Soccer...Hoping to Find the Happy Medium between Skills and Socializing

Ella has been spending her fall playing soccer.  I wish I could say she loves it but there have been a lot of nights before practice where her stomach hurts or she just tells me she doesn't want to go and a few games started with tears.  I do not like to see her upset but I also do not want her to learn that we quit when things are difficult.  
You see the last two years she has loved soccer.  That was on all girl teams though with coaches that pour on the praise.  She had her little group of girlfriends and socializing was the number one priority.  Soccer in Columbia (or at least in the league we signed up for) is different.  The girls play with the boys and the coach is on them if they aren't in the proper position.  They don't really have teams they just divide the kids up each weekend and kids practice on different nights so she doesn't make those friendships she loves.  She is practicing skills she has never even heard of let alone tried in the past.  For my perfectionist that is a challenge.  

I will say her soccer skills have really improved in the last month.  She can pull the ball back and change directions mid-dribble.  She is learning to head the ball.  She knows where she is supposed to be and the girl makes some great runs to open spots.  She has scored goals this season. She is better than a lot of the other kids on the field. This last weekend we got to the point where she is excited to play games, so progress is being made.  Practices though are still disliked.  My goal is to find a place for her to play in the spring where she can continue to develop her skills but get that "team" feeling she is looking for and hopefully a team with all girls.