How Football Changed My Life

Throughout my my life, what I defined as being successful in soccer was the amount of goals I scored and the amount of time I played. I have played soccer since I was five and ever since I started high school my soccer career has been filled with struggles. During my Freshman year of highschool I failed to make the Junior Varsity (JV)team. This was an eyeopener for me because just four months earlier I had been starting on my middle school team. I realized my failure to make the team had been caused by my over confidence which led me to not workout and train over the summer. I became frustrated with myself and committed to never let this happen again. I trained hard over the spring and summer to get into sound physical shape and when it was

They did not count on me to make firm passes or to defend well. As soon as the season ended I set out to improve myself and continued to train and workout. While most kids were inside playing video games or sleeping I was outside in the ninety-five degree sprinting suicides, running ladder drill, swimming, or running laps around my neighborhood. While watching tv I would do situps and crunches. I was so proud of my workouts over the summer that I became confident that I had a legitimate chance at making Varsity. On the first day of my Junior year of tryouts coach talked to all of the Juniors and asked them if they didn't make Varsity would they be okay with playing on JV. While I was okay with playing on JV again, many of the other Juniors were not okay with playing on JV. After a week of tryouts I was called out to go talk to coach and was put on JV. All of the other Juniors who did not make Varsity decline to be on JV. My disappointment of being the only Junior on JV grew when I found out that I would not be starting and would still not get much playing time. Despite a phenomenal year where I was only scored on twice in all eighteen of the games I played in, coach still did not play