Personal Essay On Becoming A Team Player

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Stuff come hard in life but when you put your mind to it you can do it. This about a time when I rise up to the occasion and helped my team get the victory.This was was one of the most important parts of my life.This helped me understand what it really means to be a team player. This is about the time i scored the winning goal and my team won and my team won. This really was important to me because i have never done something like this.This affected me because it showed me that when you are put on the spot you should never back down or be scared, you should always impress. To start off, it all started the morning of the game of the game. I woke up grumpy because i didn’t sleep well. I went to the bathroom and said to myself ”this is a big day it’s the final”After i said that i felt something in me that said ”your gonna score the winning goal and you are going to be the game changer.” so after i brushed my teeth, took a shower,and then went downstairs to eat my breakfast. So when i was done eating i started getting my stuff …show more content…
So we waited to see if we saw my coach or anyone from my team. It turns out we didn’t see anyone from my team so we waited a little and then started heading to the exact location on the fields were i was gonna play. When we got there I saw my team and the other team to. They were just kicking the ball around and doing nothing serious. So after ten minutes past our coach called us and said “start getting ready the game starts in like 30 minutes and we need to be ready”. We got ready and we started warming up like usual kicking the ball around passing and jogging after the warm up was over the coach gave us the prep talk before the game. He said ”this is an important game you guys have to show up. If we don’t we are gonna feel like we made it to this moment for no reason. So c’mon show them what u guys you guys can do this let’s

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