Soccer's Influence On Social Life

Everything starts as a young kid that's when you make friends and most of the time those friends are the ones you experience and try new things with in my case that thing was soccer. I grew up with a lot of my older family members playing soccer i would go to my uncles and older cousin soccer games and in my head i would think to myself i want to be as good as them and maybe even one day have a chance to play with them. When i started elementary school that's when it all started for me i made friends with kids that had the same interest as me and that was soccer it would be all i would talk and think about everyday during recess me and my group of friends would rush out to the field to play some soccer and show off our skills.

Throughout my life, soccer has been a huge part of what makes me, me, and what makes me happy. It has taught me to be strong, tough,

Although I never saw myself being one of those girls that are head over heels for a sport, I fell in love with soccer my sophomore year. Since I started soccer so late into my school career it gave me a reason to try my hardest at practices and during games. I wanted to become as good as the girls that have played their whole life. Soccer soon became a big part of my high school career, and because of this I spent hours after school either out on the field or running the

I am extremely grateful for this because soccer has impacted my life immensely. I can honestly say that soccer has pushed my life forward in a positive direction. It taught me how to be competitive, hard-working, and how to deal with people I necessarily didn't agree with or care for. That competitiveness that I first learned at the ripe age of four is something that has carried on into other aspects of my life including my education. I always want to have the highest grade in the class and if that’s not possible than the highest grade that I can get. This previously mentioned competitiveness on the field and in the classroom translates into hard work. Dealing with people I don't get along with isn't something that I am the best at, but I have been working on it. I am not always going to like my boss or coach, but I am not going to be able to change that. I can think of a few examples where I have gotten into an argument with someone who I definitely shouldn’t have been disrespecting and as I look back I feel foolish and that helps me deal with similar situations that I currently

As a child, I grew up playing softball and that 's it. My mom played softball, my cousins played softball. It’s just all I knew. When I reached the seventh grade at Gardner Dickinson (my elementary and middle school), my friends all played soccer and I reluctantly joined as well. Each year I had my ups and downs with soccer, but it grew to be a part of who I am and has taught me a lot of things. For example, to try new things, to work hard, to never give up, and to step up and be a leader.

When I start getting into soccer it was when my niece tried out and made the Mt. Bridges Delko team. She loves the game and it is very anticipating watching her play. Each year she got better faster and stronger.

Soccer is my favorite sport, no I don’t watch it on tv, nor do I have a favorite soccer team. So, it all started when I was eight years old I believe I told my mom that I didn’t want to do a certain thing anymore and that I wanted to play a sport a.k.a soccer. She of course told me sure. So she signed me up for soccer a couple of days later. I was so happy I was jumping up and down with excitement. Little did I know that I would love the sport. So, the day of the first soccer practice I was nervous I never done anything with the team and I had these questions running in my head like what if no one likes you here? Or what if you like the sport? Or what if you aren’t even good enough ? but I let these questions slide and I had learned how to play the sport. In that amount of time I thought no more like Challenged myself and said “ Cassie you can do this you are going to be apart of this team and you are going to be the best.” From then on I challenged myself, I practiced almost all the

Soccer led to days sitting in the park talking about our futures, bike rides to the beach, and nights of mischief. Around the same time I started playing and watching basketball. I remember watching Kobe Bryant play in the 2009 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics and thinking I want to try that move, hoist a trophy, have a crowd cheer for me. There has always been a sense of energy I got from playing in front of people which can be attributed to my competitiveness. Regardless, the only people that I cared about watching me were my parents. My father was always working and my mother also working among taking care of my younger sisters and I. That is until my championship game with the boys and girls club in 6th grade. I vividly remember my dad waving to me as we started the game and although we lost I was never happier. Basketball gave me a reason to smile. There were countless nights of trash talk and one on one games with people who were my rivals, rivals that are now my closest

In grade six I started playing competitive soccer in Calgary Minor Soccer Association. Soccer is a team sport, because I was more concerned about the team winning I did not focus on my own success and instead my teams. Since I was not as concerned about my own personal development in the sport, I was not as concerned about my own personal development in life.

However, the values of the sports in college that athletes dream is to go to college which is very well known and get the highest level and receive an education, however the college degree views an open door to America, but getting to play sports in college makes it hard to play professionally because it prevents from developing talent. Also that high school coaches expects athletes to leave education behind. The article Academies have changed the landscape of youth soccer explains that since the academy program changed to an 10 month schedule and forbidden players from high school competition causes prevention of youth to develop well in soccer. It seemed to done this because it was looking for 25 best players in the country and trying to make the sport only focus on the best and is taking away high school experiences. However, school and colleges had adopted soccer due to its popularity and credibility, so why forbidden soccer in high school if it is so popular? Most academies have established soccer programs for children and teenagers to increase its popularity and when it increases the more influence it will get on American society. In the U.S. Soccer Foundation which is safe, much affordable and very successful that these programs, mostly for kids, will help expand the community because it focuses on using soccer “as a vehicle for social change through support for sports-based youth development programs” (Krieger pg.

Many people play sports and have hobbies they are passionate about, but soccer isn't justa hobby or a sport I play for fun soccer is my life. Millions of people across the globe play thebeautiful sport of futbol (soccer), so what makes me different from the rest. I started playingsoccer when I was 3 years old and instantly fell in love with the beautiful game. I could tell rightaway that soccer was my sport and my passion and no one could take that away from me.Throughout my development of soccer my emotions for the sport remained constant but mypassion for it changed I became addicted to the sport. I could and still stay soccer is my drug andI can not live without it. Soccer is many things to me it is my friend, my comfort place, mysupporter,

Ever since I could remember, I have always had love for the game of soccer ever since I first laid eyes on the sport. As a kid, I would spend countless hours in the backyard by myself; I would juggle, kick around the ball and doing drills. When I wasn't in the yard pretending to be Lionel Messi I would watch Ronaldinho videos on Youtube dreaming I will one day play against him. Call me crazy, but I was addicted, even as a young boy, to the beautiful sport itself, soccer.

Soccer, a sport in which two teams with eleven players each run around kicking or heading the ball into the net to score points. At least that's what the internet says it is, but in reality it’s so much more than that. Soccer teaches, engages, and exercises not just the body, but the brain as well. Soccer is one of my favorite sports to play, but I’ve had to give it up.

I was raised by a big soccer family either my father, mother, uncles cousins, they were all into soccer. The first gift I asked for was a ball. My father and I used to play soccer when I was just a kid, I become in love with the game. I used t stay all night when I was a kid to see a soccer match, but my father and my mother wont let me to stay because I have school, and I used to cry just the game. Even if I feel a sleep during the game, I would woke up and see the match again.

When I was six years old I started playing soccer for Paul Klover, I was the youngest on the team less experienced, you know just there to have fun. It didn’t take but the first game for me to realize I found the absolute love of my life. I was running, and scoring and just smiling away having a blast. I played for two years for Paul Klover, and when I was eight I joined a team called Sedalia Futbol Chicks that’s where I met my best-friends.