Soccer Team Reflection Paper

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Playing four quarters has been a challenging task for the West Virginia offense this football season.

he Legacy I want to leave behind is in involved with soccer. I want to be remembered as a FIFA legend, and want to be better or as good as past legends like Pele, and Messi. Also, an accomplishment I would like to achieve is make into the soccer hall of fame. I want to be known as the very best. Finally, my legacy will inspire people to try harder and never give up.

Not much is known about the origin of soccer. However, the Greeks and Romans played football and ball kicking games. The London Football Association developed the first sets of rules in 1863. British sailors and settlers brought the game to India, South America and Europe.

I’m a fourth year varsity soccer player at an all-boys private school of less than 550 students. Despite our small enrollment, for athletics we play in the division of the largest schools, mainly ones with enrollments over 2000 students. We can argue the fairness of our placement as long as we like, but it won’t change our position. We have to accept the challenge of playing larger schools.

Soccer is a popular sport played all over the world. Even though it has only been popular in the United States for the past 30 years, soccer has been a long time favorite most everywhere else. The sport dates back to the Egyptians, who played games involving the kicking of a ball. Now, the sport has grown to a global pastime, including men’s and women’s teams, and the World Cup (which is played every four years).

Soccer was developed in London famed Newgate Prison in the early 1800’s. Prisoners who had their hand cut off for crimes of theft came up with a sport that used only the feet. The game spread from there. The word “Soccer” originated as a slang abbreviation of the word “association”. Soccer is called “football” in most other countries. Soccer is known worldwide, it is one of the world’s most popular team sports. If you follow these pieces of information you will become a successful soccer player.

“When groups are planned so that each member's strengths have authentic importance to the ultimate success of the group's activity, this creates a situation where individual learning styles, skills, and talents are valued, and students shine in their fortes and learn from each other in the areas where they are not as expert.”(Willis)

fans in the area have always been supportive of all the teams, even in the worst of situations,

Coach Phil Jackson once said, “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” Sky View High School Senior, Jaden Wood, is the embodiment of this.

Soccer is a great sport and the sport can be played both girls and boys sport. Also the sport can be played at a college level, Anybody can play it and it not that hard to play. Soccer in the most popular and most played in the world. Soccer should become a sport at SCHS.

“I don’t want normal people to mock me”. These were the most offensive words I have ever heard. They were pronounced by one of my teammates during the allied soccer championship. Due to his suspension from the team for his disrespectful manners and temper tantrums he had missed many practices and thought he wasn’t prepared enough to play.

This story is about a group of young boys who had a big dream. It all starts off where the few young boys are watching a normal game of football (soccer.) They have wanted to play for a while now and they are definitely thinking about playing. Many people in their town didn’t have the guts to believe they’d do it, but even the group of boys didn’t quite believe in themselves, at the start, but from learning about this amazing story, you definitely would believe these few kids with their passion to begin an amazing sport. This sport was something that every single one of those boys put effort into by building a wooden pitch right on top of the lake holding up their town and everything in it. Here are a few reasons why this small - to - big soccer team has touched me and what I’ve learned from them.

Imagine what life would be without teamwork? I think teamwork affects me everyday. It is one of the only ways I can get through life. It affects me on and off the soccer field. In my life teamwork is so important that if I didn’t choose to work with others then I probably wouldn’t be where I'm at today. I am thankful for working together because working with others keeps my life together, as well as my family, and my soccer team. On my team if their wasn’t cooperation here wouldn’t be a team. It would be a chaotic group that thinks they can do everything by themselves. “There isn’t an I in team.” There wouldn’t be any communication or any working together.

Soccer is one of the most important sport in Europe and America. About 270 million people play soccer around the world. Soccer was first played and created in England in December 1863.

During my internship I worked with Franklin High School’s football team, I started on June 25th and worked all the way to August 14th Monday-Friday for 3.5 hours each day. So all together I gotten a total of 122 hours. What I did during the internship was help the coaches in any way I possibly could, such as help setting up equipment for drills, helping the quarterbacks warm up, help run drills , and being the ball boy during their scrimmages. I did anything that the coaches asked me to help with. From this experience, I learned many things that goes into being a coach for a football team. There were some thing that I noticed about the football team that I learned about in my sports in society class. I remember talking about how some athletes think that sports are their only way of being successful, and their only way of getting out were their living right now. Some of the high schoolers saw football as their ticket of getting out of their predicaments. Sometimes they focus so much on football that they let their grades slip and get into trouble with their classes. Though the coaches do a real good job of reminding them that it’s just not their athletic ability that’ll get them into a good college, but they also have to get good grades too. The coaches do a real good job of keeping their athletes on the right track and help them when they need help so that they can play football. Something that I learned in my sponsorship and sales class helped with this situation. We