Personal Narrative: My Soccer Story

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My Soccer Story Many people are born liking liking things, and I was one of them. I became in love with the things I did. Luckily I was wearing the most valuable thing that I love, which is soccer. I still remember the first day i had a ball on my feet. I didn’t know that something that little could make a huge impact in my life and be stuck with me permanently. On October 24 , 2002 I was born. My mother told me that I had a cherished, soccer ball covered, blanket that the doctors would wrap me in to put me in the baby incubator. When the doctors wanted to clean me up at any moment the doctors would unwrap me from the blanket and I would always start crying, which then one of the doctors said “This will be the a future soccer player …show more content…

So my mom took what the doctor said and gave a soccer ball. When I first was it I was jumping for joy. Occasionally my mom would take me and my brothers to the park to play and run around. Until, I seen some kids playing with a soccer ball. My brother asked them if we could join in and they said yes. After that day, my desiring love for soccer had started. By the age of six I joined my first ever team. The team was called “The Masters.” I played for the team for my local recreation department. During the season I scored over fifteen goals out of five teams. At first i didn’t believe that I scored that many until my coach showed me the team’s “Top Scorer” trophy and the leader of the recreation announced that I did score that many goals. I was shocked and so was everybody else. However, This was only the beginning of something beautiful. Close to the age of eight, I started playing soccer with middle and high schoolers. I was playing for my brothers middle school team and they had a tournament here at Atkinson County.The coaches were stunned that an eight year old was playing with twelve to seven-teen year olds. It was an intense tournament. My team ended up coming is 3rd place out of the whole tournament. Which isn’t bad for a kid like

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