Courage In A New Soccer Team: A Personal Analysis

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One time I showed courage is when I joined a new soccer team. I knew most of the kids on the team, I still felt nervous though. I thought they would think I wasn’t good enough for the team. I felt like they had high expectations. I also needed to learn their play style which would of been different for me. When I went to my first practice I met the coaches and they told us too stretch. We stretched as a team. After we finished we went back to the coaches and they told us what we were doing that practice. We did some drills to start off like passing the ball and dribbling. I felt like I did bad on those. All the drills we did I felt like I did bad on them. Next we scrimmaged against each other. I didn’t know how to play the formation they

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