My Love For Soccer

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Realizing my love for soccer at such a young age, it helped with the development of my character in to the best student athlete I can be. The sport of soccer is much more than a ball at your feet. It is an opportunity for you to grow as an all around human being, giving you the qualities such as: passion, confidence, composure, enthusiasm, and being a team player. At the age of six years old is when I started to develop an extreme passion for the sport. Realizing at an early age that the one thing in the world that could relieve all my problems, even for only a split second, was soccer. It was the early mornings, the late nights, and the all day events that helped me to realize there is nothing in the world at this moment that i'd rather

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