Elan’s Soccer Memoir
I have been playing soccer since I was two years old. I first started playing on the sidelines of my older brother’s soccer games. The little siblings would run around on the side lines kicking a ball around instead of watching our brothers play. While I was at preschool I would play soccer next to the building. The other kids would shoot on me and I would play goalie. When my preschool teacher saw that I enjoyed playing soccer she told my mom about a program where four year olds got together and played on saturday mornings.
In the spring of 2008, my mom signed me up for the the four year olds’ Albany Berkeley Soccer Club program at Ohlone Park that my preschool teacher told me about. A bunch of four year olds would gather, running in all different directions. We would start by doing drills run by college student coaches before we split up into groups to play a game while …show more content…
Our team that was made up of kids who were born before August of 2003 could no longer remain together. All of a sudden, kids who were born in December 2002 were not allowed to play on a team with those of us who were born in 2003. I could have stayed with my friends but, it would have put me on a team that included kids up to two years older than me and therefore much bigger than me. I felt that if I was already getting hurt playing with people a little bigger than me it would not be safe to do that. I did not know at that time if I wanted to play soccer that next season. I had finally found a team that I played well with and that lasted a long time. Our team had become friends, we saw each other both on and off the field. After the cutoff changed, we stayed friends however, some of us stopped playing soccer all together because the team that we were part of had been torn apart. In the end I did chose to keep playing however I wish it was with my old team and not my new team, the
I have been playing soccer since I was two years old. I first started playing on the sidelines of my older brother’s soccer games. The little siblings would run around on the side lines kicking a ball around instead of watching our brothers play. While I was at preschool I would play soccer next to the building. The other kids would shoot on me and I would play goalie. When my preschool teacher saw that I enjoyed playing soccer she told my mom about a program where four year olds got together and played on saturday mornings.
In the spring of 2008, my mom signed me up for the the four year olds’ Albany Berkeley Soccer Club program at Ohlone Park that my preschool teacher told me about. A bunch of four year olds would gather, running in all different directions. We would start by doing drills run by college student coaches before we split up into groups to play a game while …show more content…
Our team that was made up of kids who were born before August of 2003 could no longer remain together. All of a sudden, kids who were born in December 2002 were not allowed to play on a team with those of us who were born in 2003. I could have stayed with my friends but, it would have put me on a team that included kids up to two years older than me and therefore much bigger than me. I felt that if I was already getting hurt playing with people a little bigger than me it would not be safe to do that. I did not know at that time if I wanted to play soccer that next season. I had finally found a team that I played well with and that lasted a long time. Our team had become friends, we saw each other both on and off the field. After the cutoff changed, we stayed friends however, some of us stopped playing soccer all together because the team that we were part of had been torn apart. In the end I did chose to keep playing however I wish it was with my old team and not my new team, the