Playing sports has always been a passion of mine. I played Pop Warner Football until I broke my foot in third grade. After my foot healed, I decided to play soccer because my my cousin played and I wanted to try it . Ever since I started playing soccer, I have always my hardest and strived to get better. All summer I worked with my friend Imanol practicing hard to make sure we made the team.…
I started sports at a young age, the age of 7. “WOW, Denisse you did sports for 6 years!” Well, not quite. I was doing sports on and off. I first began playing soccer but then got into track, volleyball, etc.…
Through the years, I’ve played countless sports like soccer,…
is that soccer is the most popular sport. Seeing everyone watch and play soccer made me fall in love with it. I have played in little leagues, middle school, high school, city leagues, and college intramurals. Besides being fun, soccer has taught me many life lessons. Two of these lessons are perseverance and teamwork.…
Soccer was something I invested 11 years of my life into, and quitting abruptly put my parents into a frenzy. To my parents this was just another stupid decision, but to me it was the start of my independence. From this day on I began to make choices because I personally wanted to. I stopped caring what my parents thought of me and promised myself to do more for myself. I began excelling in school, not because of the pressure my parents put on me to succeed, but because I knew I could do better if I applied myself.…
CHANGING THE WORLD ONE GOAL AT A TIME There have many people that change the world like Martin Luther King Jr. He ended slavery or Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb. In soccer it is different because to change the world of soccer it is different.…
In 2012, I joined my first organized team sport, soccer. It was in late August and my mom asked, “Adriane, your dad and I talked about you getting involved in a team sport and thought you might like to join a soccer team.” I had no clue on how to play soccer, what the rules were, or what the positions were! We looked around for different clubs in the area and mom decided I would play for a county league called Severn Soccer Club (SAC).…
Soccer is a game played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball that may not be touched with the hands or arms during play except by the goalkeepers. This is the sport that I love and have played since I was 4 years old and it makes my identity and who I am today, with many reasons. There are many reasons why I love soccer and why I am sticking with it throughout high school, and want to scholarship with it. One reason because of my sister Emily. She was a fantastic sweeper, and had the # 12 jersey.…
Soccer has always been my love, my passion, and my outlet. If I have a rough day, all I have to do is lace up my cleats and step onto the field and just like that, all my worries drift away. I would always play for myself and no one else, it was my game and I thought that no one could take that away from me. Every time I played soccer I felt free, until the day that everything changed.…
Soccer became my life. Soccer made me who I am today because if you don’t respect your teammates, your coach, and all the rules, you cannot…
I once had a small event that I thought would never change me. According to Lin-Manuel Miranda, it has happened to him also. When I was younger, I loved playing sports. Sports was one of my favorite activities to do while growing up. Eventually, it became a positive outcome to me.…
I began playing soccer when I was five and it has just kind of stuck with me every since. I'm in no way a soccer star, I'm average at best. But being the best had never been what attracted me to soccer, it is the players and coaches and friends that I have met, connected with and have impacted me that make me want to continue playing. My first select…
Governing bodies of sports play a fundamental role in our society, therefore good governance principles is necessary to uphold an organization’s missions. Elements of good governance include direction, power, regulation, and control. These are all things that FIFA seemed to have in place, yet here we are with a great deal of corruption and football fans calling for reform. As the co-President of FIFA, I will help restructure an organization that will be free from corruption and that will restore the global soccer community’s faith in FIFA.…
I decided to check on the internet how to become a professional soccer player. I found that the first step was to join a soccer club for preparation and gain experience. I told my mom, and she took me to join a team. La Arena Soccer Tulancingo was the name of the club. We won many local tournaments, but I remember the most significant moment.…
After such a great experience playing soccer, I later joined traveling basketball and softball with my dad as my coach. He showed me not how to become a good player, but a great one. I have learned many important things through basketball, such as how to work as a team, obedience, and not to let a mistake define you. Softball also taught me the importance of teamwork and never to rely on one another. My dad has led me to believe these things will help on and off the court/field and to this day, they…