There are certain moments in your life where you choose to pause and take a mental picture to help you remember every detail. For me, this moment took place on the sideline of my sixth grade championship soccer game. As a child, I was never drawn to soccer as a sport. I started playing when I was five for the sole purpose of playing with my friends during the weekdays. I did not even begin liking soccer until three years later when I was eleven. But even though my feelings about it changed, one thing about my soccer career always remained the same. My dad attended every single game. He stood in the scorching hot with lemonade and oranges. He stood in the freezing cold with hot chocolate and marshmallows. He would cheer me on for every little move I made during my games. It was through my soccer career that I began to understand and appreciate all of the sacrifices that my dad has made for my sake. Although it was not my favorite, soccer was a huge part of my childhood. Like many kids, I began playing at a very young age. I would run around in circles on a field that was one-fourth of the regulation size and attempt to shoot into a miniature popup goal. My dad was always there sitting …show more content…
I had on my bright sapphire blue uniform. I drew blue war paint on my face and sprayed my hair blue. I was excited to say the least. This was a huge day for me. I had worked so hard to be there and I could not wait to get the game started. As we arrived, my dad mentioned that my friend’s mom was going to drive me home from the game because he had to go to a meeting. I gave my dad a perplexed look and said, “wait…you’re not staying for the game”? I was heartbroken. My dad had become my good luck charm. He came to every game and stood beside the flock of soccer moms and cheered me on, even when I was on the bench. He said he did everything he could to get out of the meeting, but that meant nothing to me. As childish as it sounds for a sixth grader, I needed my
I remember my dad always watching soccer news every night before going to bed. All my family loves soccer, we have this tradition that when a Mexican team plays we all get together to watch the game at my mom’s house. I think that’s what makes me love soccer as much as I do. Playing soccer also helps me to relax and to be confident when I have stress or after a long day at work. It's not just about kicking the ball or scoring
When I turned three, I started playing my favorite sport to this day, Soccer! I love soccer because it gives me this feeling of excitement and I just love winning with all of my friends on the field. I loved soccer and I looked forward to it every day. I met a lot of my friends in soccer and it is one of the reasons that I started to become an athletic person. Soccer is still my favorite sport and I love it. I am planning to still play soccer up to the varsity team.
Soccer has helped me to become the person I am today. It has given me the opportunity to build relationships that I would not have made elsewhere. Playing the sport has helped me overcome my issues with anger and has made me tougher as well. I am thankful that my parents pushed me to keep playing when I was younger, because now I adore playing soccer and could not imagine
Growing up, from the time I started my first day of class until walking across my hometowns football field to receive my diploma I never had thought that I let something define the person that I have become today. However, being presented with this essay I have come to the realization that football has defined me as a person. I don’t mean to say that the sport has had this much of an impact on me, I’d rather like to think that the memories associated with the sport has made an everlasting impact on my life.
Football was always something special to me and always will be, I started playing football when I was five years old for Little Devils Football. It all began after wrestling practice one day where we got to dress up in football pads and hit each other for fun. That day I fell in love with the sport and realized how fun it would be to play it throughout my life and how I would enjoy it. I Started playing the next season I could, I met some new friends and became best friends with my dear friend Mikey Schrand. Me and Mikey rode to practice together, games together and even hanged out together. I started the season playing middle linebacker and fullback. I loved playing and loved the positions i played. Times were with our coach being a former arena football player. I went to practice every day at seven p.m. and stayed till nine p.m. and man that coach made us run like no other coach, we ran more than a track team. I remember some practices were we would have to go to the notorious hill where it was basically straight up and down and we would do bear crawls up and down the hill for two ...
From an early age I always knew I would be playing soccer my whole life. My dad showed me the ropes of how to play and got me interested right away. By the age of three I had started playing, and to this day I have not stopped. Soccer has been a huge part of my life and I don’t know where I would be today if I never played. I met some amazing people playing soccer including my coaches who encouraged me and told me never to give up as well as my teammates who became my friends and were always there for me.
As I was growing up, it was my dream to become a famous soccer player. Driven by this motivation, I started playing soccer when I was five years old. Since then I had played for my elementary, middle, and high school team until I joined college and focused on my study.
Growing up playing soccer has indeed shaped me into the person I am today. At first it was just a sport that I played for enjoyment in the community. Next thing I know I got asked to be on a travel team and compete against teams across the west coast. My parents and I became committed to my soccer profession. I started moving up the ranks pretty rapidly for my age. I was traveling to Vegas, San Francisco, Arizona and other states for
Soccer is the worlds most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin-American countries, and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. The World Cup is held every four years. Soccer is one of the most famous international sports. Soccer is known world wide and is played in the Olympics.
Soccer also got me out of trouble when I was playing. My friends would invite to go out I would say “sorry I’m going to play soccer” and thank god I didn’t because they were mostly up to no good. I was a little bad and good kid but the love of the sport keep me together and made me realize many great things. I had a lot of hard times in my life that put a frown on my face and I would cry, soccer took that side of me out and put a smile right on my face. Gave me strength I needed and at the end of the day I would leave out the field with courage. I’m still scared sometimes in life on how to express myself and soccer guided me with that and showed who I am today.
“Hey Alex, I’m looking for some kids to join this football team,” was one of the most life-changing sentences of my life. My friend had asked me to play a sport that I had no idea how to play. I was terrified, though I still ran home to tell my dad to register me to a Highlands Ranch football team. At the time I couldn't interpret what the astonished look on his face meant. I was nine and I had no idea how football would shape my future transforming me into a competitive and persistent person.
Over my three year soccer career, my coach and teammates taught me lessons that I could never learn in a classroom or from a textbook, real life lessons. Though I spent a large portion of my first year warming the bench, my coach believed in letting every athlete play; so I played each game, even
I really can’t pinpoint the time in my life when I became a soccer fan. But, I remember at a very young age watching soccer games with my father and his friends in the village that we were in. We didn’t have much, but we were one of the few families that had television in the village, and that means that whenever there’s a soccer game on tv, a lot of people will come to our place to watch the game. Soccer was all everybody talk about in terms of sports, and to be honest I didn’t know other sport existed apart from soccer until we moved to the United States. So growing up, all I hear about when it comes to sports is soccer. The boys would talk about it and play it bare foot on the playground, my father and his age mates and up will not stop talking about it, and most women, if not all, will bring
Soccer has always been a part of my life since I was four years old, it has also been in my family for a very long time. My father played soccer all his life and also in college, the same thing goes for my sister she also played in college. So soccer is in my blood and because of that reason and because I have been playing since I was four years old it has taught me some very important lessons that will benefit me greatly through the rest of my life.
Running, kicking, and defending. I still remember when I was running on the grass field day and night, cooperating with teammates in both heat and cold; despite the harsh condition and our total exhaustion, we always tried our best to score goals and win the game. Playing soccer was a very memorable time in my life. My involvement in High School Soccer has given me so much enjoyment, and experience through team association that I can never repay. For example, soccer gave me joy, excitement and most importantly, friendship. Soccer is the first sport that I have ever played and I played soccer for three years, but with much regret my senior year, I had to quit.