A Narrative Essay On How Football Changed My Life

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Well this day goes back to freshman year when I first started to play soccer for East Noble High School and this ends on my senior year, I’ve been playing soccer for 11 years but not for East Noble. I first started out in NASA a soccer program that allowed kids to play and get taught soccer not the space program. This value taught me to always stick with my goals and push every day to do my best at anything I do. Freshman year soccer was an interesting year because my that freshman years was the first year a coach heavily implied that I was fat and he wasn’t wrong but the way he said it wasn’t the correct way to say it to freshman but coach jones said that, “ are you can run or keep up with the other players”. I showed him wrong by how fit I was that year with all my running, and me riding my bike all summer plus passing his fitness test. He was one of those coaches that were to lean on us, he would …show more content…
That night I saw an award that I wanted so much because it was the best defender award. So, I started to do drills and run on my own but that didn’t last long probably about a month, so that year for soccer didn’t work out as planned, but I still passed all the fitness test but I got to play one game with my cousin that what I liked most of that year and also getting closer with the upper classmen that were graduating that year. My junior year of soccer stood out to me because of all the memories that I made with the group of guys and we getting to the finals in sectionals, but we lost 3-1 to West Noble and knowing that next year was my last year of high school soccer made be cry with all the seniors. Knowing that next year was going to be my last year of soccer and it also being my senior hit me hard and stuck with me for a

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