Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Soccer Player

Soccer is a game where nothing is predictable. Soccer is a game that’s been around since the eighteenth century and has a different effect on many athletes’ lives, including mine. My sophomore year of high school is over and I was finally over with a long season of high school soccer. Returning to my team of five years I was excited to go back and am comfortable with. Right as I approached my team I saw an unfamiliar face and instantly got intimidated. Trying my hardest to avoid him it seemed as if every time I looked over he was examining my every move. Of course that day of practice was a series of conditioning test to see if we were really doing our fitness assignments over the break. The drills consisted of a pattern of sprint got dragged out all along to eighty yard

Soccer is not only a sport for me, but also my childhood. I remember that when I was a little boy, I followed my older brothers and their friends to play soccer every day. We did not have the soccer fields. We played soccer on the quite streets or on the fields, not soccer fields, wherever we had spaces to run and control the ball. Because of I came a person like soccer. I like to play and watch others play it. Soccer is running is my blood. I am really interested in the soccer.

I spent all my life with a soccer ball at my feet. I've had the worst problems happen to me and i'd always somehow get through it when i'm on the pitch. Honestly there is no place i'd rather be than scoring goals and playing the beautiful game with some of my best friends. There is one thing in this world that can actually fix all of your problems, futbol!

Sometime around fall of my freshman year, I decided to join the Marmion lacrosse team, mainly because many of my friends were playing, but also because its exciting nature intrigued me. I did not realize it at the time, but this decision would end up changing my life. Being an athletic person, along with lacrosse being a relatively easy sport to learn, I became a good player on the freshman team. I worked my way up the ranks, from getting minimal playing time at first, then starting a few games in. A little under halfway through the season, the JV coach asked me

That same summer, the summer before freshman year, I tried out for my another team in my town, which is my current team. My shoulder had rested its 12 weeks, and I was cleared by the doctor, I could resume training. Starting off everything went as planned, then I experienced the same pain, and being afraid what my new coach would say, I said nothing. Two entire, excruciating weeks

I thought so too. I wanted the coaches to get to know me better and I could practice with the team. The coach told me to be on varsity next year I had to put on 20 pounds and become a better hitter. I Agreed to become manager and start going to the

Tahoma Bears Baseball program has taken a huge impact on my life as growing as a young man. It has taught me on how to have a better attitude for the game of baseball and how to be a better teammate and person. Before the season starts for baseball we have open gyms, open gyms are a very special time because it shows coaches before the season actually starts what some players are capable of doing and things that they can see being a possible future for the program. My first year of playing for Tahoma really opened my eyes at what talent i was going to have to compete against. When going into the season i was thinking i was going to be a for sure varsity guy and i became really full of myself. But as tryouts came and gone i noticed that my name wasn't on the varsity roster and i could only wonder why and then i looked at

Once again a preseason of hard work led to a season where I could not start a single game in the season. However, because I had learned to work even harder than I had before, I saw much more playing time, playing in seven of our twelve games, including one playoff game, and I had found a spot playing on special teams. I also was able to make a few tackles, and our team improved, as we went from a team that won less than half of our games, to a team that had one regular season loss, and lost in the championship. In my junior season, I started to get much better, in many ways due to the fact that the offensive line coach on Varsity was better than that of JV. However, the playing time that I received only slightly improved, because I was hampered by being stuck behind one of the best offensive linemen in school history. He won all-state, all-league, all-section 1, and lineman of the year in our league. So again, I failed to get into the starting lineup, but I knew that I was very close to making

My sophomore year of high school, I tore my UCL. I thought that my playing days would possibly be over and I wouldn’t be the same baseball player again. I went to the doctor in Memphis and they told me my options, it was either quit playing or have the procedure. I didn’t really know much about the surgery at the time but, after the surgery I had to know the steps. It was a long process as I had the procedure in June and wasn’t cleared for baseball activities until December. The therapy was long, hard, and difficult but I made it through. You have to be dedicated and hard working to make it through the process. I returned play my junior year and played the full season. I have had little to no problems with my arm since. The surgery changed and saved my baseball career and I’ll always be thankful for Dr. Jobe’s fantastic

I showed up in uniform to tell my coach of the news I had received from the doctor. He gave me back a response that was the perfect sentiment I needed to hear "That’s terrible man, that’s nothing you can take lightly but you are a part of this team so you are still gonna be with us all the way through even if you cant get on the field,". That’s exactly what I did too. I stayed with my team and went all the practices and every game. I participated as much as I could without over working my arm. None of it was ever enough for me though. None of it was ever as sweet as actually being apart of real baseball and being apart of the wins. It was soon time for the next appointment where there was no good news. The doctor said if there was anything to be done it required immediate surgery. This felt like great news, finally getting something done and going back to the game I love. I went through surgery, and the doctor told he did everything he needed to do to fix what was believed to be the problem. I began the healing process as soon as I could and I went to all my physical therapy sessions with one goal. To get back on the field. Little did I know that there had been no progress inside my elbow and I required an additional surgery. Of course I was ready for anything it took to get back to baseball. So another surgery, more physical therapy, and the entire healing process over again. All of it goes by with one thing on my

The feeling of defeat is one like no other. It was my freshman year, and I had just made varsity soccer for Vestavia Hills. The goal for the team: 7A state champions.

Chasing the ball down the field to soon hear a loud crack followed by silence.

I am a two time state champion, I will graduate with eight total varsity letters, and I am proud of everything about me. When I say that, you think of an athletic, healthy, normal kid; but I am not normal, I am not healthy, and I should not be athletic. I have what is called Pectus Excavatum which is a deformity that leaves you a hollowed or concaved chest. People with this deformity find themselves with a smaller lung capacity, with a displaced heart, and with insecurity over their body; and I was one of these people. As a result of the deformity people usually try avoid pools, gyms, and sports because of the possible insecurity and health risks associated with the disease; but I was the complete opposite growing up. I loved going to the

Since I was five years old I have been a goalie for my soccer team whether it be the local rec team or the high school varsity team. I have always loved the game but I have also enjoyed playing multiple other sports such as basketball, ski team, softball, and eventing. With juggling all these activities as well as doing well in school I never really got all year round training many other goalies get. So when I was a freshman there was an upperclassmen goalie who was the varsity goalie and it was expected that when I was a junior I would take over where she left off. However, a bunch of changes started to happen that year. We got a new coach which meant we all had to prove to him that we deserved our spots the team. There was also a new freshman

i am a soccer player I wonder if I make a goal I hear the crowd cheering I see my friends cheering I want to win the game I am a soccer player