What Does Soccer Mean To Me

Soccer has been one of the most important things in my life. The sport has made me who I am and is the reason for my life's determination to make something of myself. Everything I can say I've accomplished in life has been through the amazing sport. I have played soccer since I was 4 years old and it's been such a huge part in my life. The games, the practices, the traveling, the teammates, the coaches. Everything since the first day of starting has been such huge motivation in my life. Soccer is the reason to keep pushing so hard through life's obstacles. I can go to the soccer field everyday and it will make my bad days good, and my good days better. Soccer has motivated me in life because I want to make something of myself through the sport, it motivates me to make my family proud by never giving up on my dreams.

In my life soccer has been the only thing I’ve ever been passionate and good at in my life. Yes, I'm not necessarily good at school and my act score isn’t the best. But I do think I’m an Excellent player. With soccer in my life it gives me a little happiness I can juggle with for the time being.

Since 1863 when the first ever professional soccer game was played in London, soccer has become the most played and watched sport throughout the world. The game is played by two teams with eleven players on each side. Each team has a goalkeeper, who is the only player on the field able to use their hands. A game lasts ninety minutes with the objective of kicking the ball into the other team's net, and the winner is whoever scores the most goals. Although that is what most people think of when they hear soccer, soccer has a completely different meaning to me. To me, soccer is a sport that is played between my 10 best friends and I. We all are passionately playing because when we play, we play with our hearts not our feet. Soccer is something

By the 8th grade, I was a middle schooler playing on varsity soccer. I learned and adopted a ton of new soccer skills as well as life lessons. For example, I obtained traits such as cooperation, teamwork, responsibility, controlling emotions, and determination. Two lessons that affected me the most were setting goals and success requires hard work. From the moment I first stepped onto the field, I established a goal in my head that I wanted to make it to the top one day. Seeing the captains with all their soccer skills, I wanted to be like them one day. I began to practice more and more each day by myself getting better. I then began to catch onto the fact that success requires hard work. The hard work I put in while following my teammates sometimes lead to failures, but I never abandoned my goal. Choosing to be a follower affected my life in different ways. I learned about my capabilities as a person, and how I could grow and

However, sports go deeper than that; I realized that they teach life skills and help open up and establish a pathway to success.

From the minute I started kicking in my mother’s stomach my father made it his mission to teach me soccer. Three year old me would be kicking soccer balls like my life depended on it. Later in life at age 8 I started playing on teams. We went from being the worst in the league to champions twice in a row. Being champions can really get in someone’s head, and suddenly you think your skills are superior to those of people around you.

I am not someone who changes minds often. Even though I always stick to myself and believe what I say and think, I actually have changed my mind on something. I have changed my mind on soccer. I used to think that soccer was a boring sport to watch and play, and that it was mostly for girls. Now I find the sport different and therefore, I enjoy it and have learned to appreciate it.

Constant running and never ending judgement from those around me. Yet, this did not make me stop. I challenged my teammates and coaches belief that I could not play and quickly became one of the most used players on the team. I nearly made the varsity team and started several games on Junior Varsity. I played amongst those who doubted me and became one of them. I became a soccer player, I learned to lead those around me, adapt to an environment I had yet to encounter, and how to change people’s opinion about me. It was the proudest moment of my adolescent life when the coach said an amazing heartfelt speech about how I would challenge both him and myself everyday at practice because I wanted to prove to those surrounding me I deserved to be playing on the pitch amongst them. The decision I made to go out for a sport I had never played my junior year of high school is by far the turning point of my life, I truly believe it changed me and gave me another dimension to my complex personality. I gave me an experience unlike that of any other person because I am not a natural athlete, I am just a child who has been doubted but has destroyed that doubt over and over

Playing soccer my freshman year seemed like a smart decision while I was entering the program before officially beginning high school. Soccer was something in my life that made me the person I was; I was dedicated for over ten years of my life with my dad

Soccer “The Beautiful Game” everyone knows soccer is the most competitive and popular sport in the world. Soccer isn’t just a sport it’s the meaning of life for billions of people in this world, many people think it’s just a game when it’s not. Soccer has impacted and changed the life of millions of people. Soccer takes you out of drugs, bad habits, gang violence, and benefits you by getting in shape, having a good education, not doing anything bad in life, and it also takes you out of poverty. There’s thousands of professionals soccer players that their lives have changed because of soccer, many of them were poor and did not have much money to give.

I have been playing soccer since I was six years old and still continue to play. I have played with many teams, many coaches, and many different players who all have helped me flourish as not just as a player, but as a person. I have also been a captain for my team which has helped me learn the values of respect, attitude, and leadership. Soccer has allowed me to improve as a person while also improving my teammates by showing empathy and confidence in them. It has aided me to develop relationships faster and become an easier person to cooperate with. Not only has soccer

When I had given up my life in order to continue living, I asked myself, “What now?” My first answer, of course, was to fester in my own misery. This decision didn’t accomplish

A really big goal I have for this new year is to improve myself sport wise. For an example, I have to improve how i play soccer mentaly and physicaly (1 mile in 6 min), and to have courage in myself and confidence that I know that I can make the academy. This is really important to me because I really want show how good I can be for my age to everyone. Also I can prove everyone that I can make it to an academy, and show them that anyone can do it. I want to show them that a person from lindenwold can become great and does not have to be from and big famous school like Eastern. That's what I want to show this year in 2017 for my first goal. Trying to make this big goal become true, I'll work really hard every day by running everyday, going to the weight room, not being scared and just take the risk. First I'll start my going to the weight room at least 3 times a week to get used to it, so I get tougher for soccer because high school soccer is way different than middle school soccer. Also Ill this week and try to get a mile in 6 min or less in 2 weeks to get back in fit and be ready for snyder practices.

I first found a ball at my feet at the age of four. Since then, the game of soccer has intrigued me and taken over my life. I played for thirteen years before a career ending neck injury in November of 2014. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world and is the most popular sport in much of Europe, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. More commonly known as football outside of the United States, soccer is played in nearly every nation on the planet (Auerbach).”

When I moved here from Mason City I knew I wanted to play football as a Lion. So I knew that if I didn't put a lot of effort into weight training and going to football camps that I wasn't going to be that great of a football player. So after 8th grade I signed up for an Iowa State lineman camp to work on defence and learn new moves. I ended up learning quite a bit. I went to LPT and got a lot better as an athlete and as a person because it taught me a lot about responsibility. The way it taught me responsibility is by you have to wake up early I had to pack my clothes the night before. It gave me a whole new lifestyle. When I went to school at Mason I would get to school around 7:50 and now at clear lake I get to school most of the time by