My Journey To Become A Good Soccer Player

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Since I was a child, I was watching many soccer games on TV or sometimes I went to my older brother to the soccer fields in my town and I saw many professional players there. I was watching so many soccer games, but I could not play. I was hoping to become a good soccer player like the players I saw on TV or in the fields, but no one encouraged me to play soccer because I was a child and they thought I cannot play soccer because my body was too small. Moreover, some schools in my city did not focus on talents; for example, in United States I noticed that the schools care about students who have talents and encourage them. Some students like to play basketball, the schools help them to practice their talents under the supervision of specialist …show more content…
Each achievement makes us want to achieve more and more and more of achievements. When I started middle school, I did not stop practicing. I managed my time between studying and playing soccer. I was playing at the school when I had sports class, and I was playing with my friends next to my house. One day my older brother said, “I will take you with me to play in the town 's fields." This means I would play with the professional players I admired. In the first game I was playing striker, which is a forward on soccer team and the most scorer, against the best goalie in our town. I was too short according to other players in the field. We started the game and in the first 30 minutes of the game, I scored 4 goals. The other team 's goalie refused to complete the game. He said “how did this child score 4 goals?” Everyone thought I was a child judging by my body. That made me famous in my town and most of them knew that I was a good player. This made me believe that I can do more and more in soccer. In the elementary school, we did not have an elementary school 's championship of the town, but my school organized one between classes, and my class won in that championship. At the time, many people supported me to join the town 's team, but I refused that because I wanted to focus more on my studies and with town 's team I would need to travel a lot to play with other cities or town teams. Even though, I achieved what I wanted which becoming a good soccer player, and I achieved more such as many championships with my team, I aspired to practice playing soccer in big championships such as high schools championships, which the Oil Company

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