Speech : African Cup, Opening Ceremony

Attention Getter Did you know 46% of the world population is considered a soccer fan? That’s 3.5 billion people out of 7.5 billion currently in the world’s population which is very close to half. Which makes soccer the most popular sport in the world.

VII. But, above all of these he has given me the opportunity that he didn’t have.

Career record. Since Pete Rose was born his peers had known he was going to be something big. He broke many world records, especially the most all time hits record with 4,256 total hits. Pete Rose earned the title National League Most Valuable Player (Lloyd 2015). With more broken records that are still set that any other famous mlb player, Rose is basically a walking legend. (Lagrave 2015) Pete Rose won the world series back to back and 44 games in a row. Pete Rose ended his last season with a overall batting average .340! Rose set a record for 240 hits in a single season (Solomon

In his career Wayne Gretzky could always find a way to score goals, get assist, and rack up points. He is still holds the record for scoring the most career goals of all time at eight hundred and ninety four goals. He also holds the record for the most career points at two thousand eight hundred and fifty seven points and for the most career assist at one thousand nine hundred and sixty three.

Ricardo Kaka, renowned AC Milan/Real Madrid player and native Brazilian, he is one of the most openly religious players in soccer and has contributed much of his personal funds to founding churches and supporting charities. Furthermore, Ricardo Kaka demonstrates a level of humility not often seen in the sporting world especially at the level he has competed at and the awards that he has received. After receiving the Ballon D’Or, the highest individual award in soccer, in 2007 (the last player to do so since the Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo winning streak) he attributed the skills

He made not just himself on the court but his

3. “I don’t know how you know, how you just know in your gut that something really bad is about to happen, but I knew

Another great player to play the great sport of basketball. He is still kind of young and still has so much he wants to do and is gonna do. He is a great player all around on and off the court. When a player loves what they do they work relentlessly hard to get where they want to be in life. The NBA does a great job with the sport and players.

Pele had just scored his first of many goals at the World Cup, at just seventeen. No one, when they first saw him entering that Swedish field, thought he would become one of the greatest soccer players the world would have ever known. Pele-Why Soccer Matters was written by Pele himself, long after his soccer career was over. Brian Winters helped organize the book. Pele, with

It is now widely accepted that: 1. Jordan was the most influential athlete ever; and 2. He is also the greatest to ever play the game stated by anyone that has ever seen him play. These two facts coincide with each other showing Jordan's affect

5. Were you more surprised or impressed with Andre’s ability to articulate his emotions? Why?

How Soccer Explains the World spans many topics and times in history, all the while using sports to explain different cultural events. Foer takes on the task of using soccer to weave a relatable picture for his audience to understand. While the topics covered are interesting and rich with history, Foer fails to clearly use soccer as an example of Economics, and had the book not tried to tie soccer in to everything as much, it would have been a more powerful piece of literature.

After Cristiano’s spell in Manchester, he made a record setting transfer to Real Madrid in 2009. He was ready for a change and stated that he wants to play a different style of football and face a new challenge. Striving to be the greatest, Cristiano set out to Spain looking to break new records and pick up his second Ballon D’or after winning it the first time that previous year. This chapter in his life brought him head to head with his rival Lionel Messi, who is also a contender for the Player of the Year Award. In fact, Messi went on to win the award 4 consecutive years after Ronaldo picked it up for the first time. This fueled Ronaldo do impeccable things on the football pitch. He set club and league records in 2014, just 5 years after arriving in Madrid. He became the all-time leading goal scorer for his club and the player with the most hat-tricks in the history of the league. This helped him to win the Ballon D’or for the 2nd time in 2013 and to him it was the most meaningful award yet.

93. He's such a monotonous speaker. I was ________________ stiff. (bored /

Do you know Michael Jordan? This basketball player is really famous because of many reasons. He has helped impact society like the other people in the world today. I chose this person, to research, because I was born in Los Angeles, California. I liked Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan is the closest to him I can get. One Jordans quotes is,”There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either. Everyone plays in different eras. I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent. I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era. Without Julius Erving, David Thompson, Walter Davis, and Elgin Baylor there would never have been a Michael Jordan.