Growing up, soccer was my life. Everything I did, everybody I knew all came from this. It all started when I was in third grade when my step-dad asked me if I wanted to start playing soccer. I was always kicking around a soccer ball or shooting in the small goal outside so being on an actual team was a scary thought. He would always be a defender and let me try to score on him but with him being 200 pounds and me being 80, it was always a hard thing to do. But nonetheless, I decided that playing soccer would be something I was interested in trying. He offered to be the coach to help me be more comfortable on the team and it was actually not as fun as it sounds. He would always make me demonstrate what to do or yell at me when I was messing
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I played all throughout elementary school, tried out for the middle school soccer team and made it. It was sad when all the people I played with in elementary school didn’t make the team in middle school but they always came to cheer us on anyways. In middle school, soccer was easy and it was all girls. We ran around the school for exercise, or dribbled around cones. In the moment, I thought this was the hardest thing in the world but looking back it was super easy. We always split up and scrimmaged against each other on small teams. We only really played five other schools in real games and we were decent. I was a defender so my job was basically to not let the other team score when they were really close to the net. It was super difficult but I would say I was pretty darn good at it. When I built up leg muscle, I started scaring the other teams because my kicks would be so far. They would start ducking every time I kicked the ball and they couldn’t catch up with my speed either. There are always a couple girls on the team who were unbelievably fast and that’s probably when they were more likely to score against me. The coach I had in middle school ended up being the coach I had in high school for the first two years as well. Middle school soccer was basically the solid foundation that I had when it came to friends and
I played all throughout elementary school, tried out for the middle school soccer team and made it. It was sad when all the people I played with in elementary school didn’t make the team in middle school but they always came to cheer us on anyways. In middle school, soccer was easy and it was all girls. We ran around the school for exercise, or dribbled around cones. In the moment, I thought this was the hardest thing in the world but looking back it was super easy. We always split up and scrimmaged against each other on small teams. We only really played five other schools in real games and we were decent. I was a defender so my job was basically to not let the other team score when they were really close to the net. It was super difficult but I would say I was pretty darn good at it. When I built up leg muscle, I started scaring the other teams because my kicks would be so far. They would start ducking every time I kicked the ball and they couldn’t catch up with my speed either. There are always a couple girls on the team who were unbelievably fast and that’s probably when they were more likely to score against me. The coach I had in middle school ended up being the coach I had in high school for the first two years as well. Middle school soccer was basically the solid foundation that I had when it came to friends and