Personal Essay: Soccer Is The Ultimate Team

I believe that soccer is the ultimate team sport.Soccer brings people together, if both you and a complete stranger play or are into soccer, you can instantly connect and have a conversation. When Alvaro first came to our English class, I had never met him in my life, but we connected instantly because we both play soccer. Alvaro and I talked in both classes we have together about soccer. The soccer world is a community. It is a very popular sport in the world and fans bond over their favorite pro team. All throughout my life I have played soccer and I am still very good friends with many of my former teammates, and I am making friends for life on my current teams. Playing soccer brings out the best in people. It forces us to bring out our competitive side of us, everyone has it. It is healthy to compete and be involved in things like that. It is …show more content…
That is the year I started soccer and as soon as I started soccer, I was a happier kid. I met kids from three other towns and I hung out with them many times outside of soccer on the weekends, I am still friends with many of them and they have ended up here at YHS with me and plays on the school varsity team with me. Others I work with like my friend Max. We grew up together, and we still hang out and see each other very often even though he goes to Oswego High School. That first year of soccer greatly increased my confidence. I was the best on the team! I discovered I am a natural at soccer, and to cap it all off we went undefeated! This season changed my life forever and now I am planning to go to college for soccer. Right now I am a sophomore on our school's varsity soccer team. Soccer changed my life for the better and I love the game for it.

Soccer has made me who I am and it has positively impacted my life. It has helped me make friends, it has given me more motivation to keep my grades up so I'm not ineligible. I believe that soccer is the ultimate team