Personal Narrative: My Failure As A Soccer Player

Failure is an instrumental part of everyday life. Learning to live with and move past failure is most detrimental lesson one must learn. I am the type of person to learn best from mistakes. I learn best by doing, failing, and trying again. Some of the greatest inventors also think this way, so I do not see it as a fault as some may. As a student, failure happens, but moving past it more determined is what makes a great student. I am a soccer player, and I have always dreamt of being the best player ever. However, being born in a country that is just starting to become accustomed to soccer puts me at a disadvantage. I grew up in a tiny private school up until my sophomore year of high school. This meant athletics were not the strength of the school. My …show more content…
However The guys on my team treated me as a brother and I became great friends with many of them. That season we looked extremely talented. The team was considered to be a state championship contender. We dominated most teams, giving us a favorable seed come playoff time. We swept our first round opponents easily. The second round brought us to East Carteret a very talented team, but we came together and played the game of our lives thrashing them seven to nil. Time for the third round, no Rosewood team had ever passed the third round. We played a team with four players nominated to the all state team. When the dust settled, we had finished with a win three to nil. The team was ecstatic. We were the best team Rosewood has every had. We were a family and nobody could stop us. Finally we reached the fourth round, we were to face the two time defending state champions, Wallace-Rose Hill High School. The game was one of opportunity for both teams. Unfortunately, my team was overwhelmed by their poise. Heartbreak spread across the team. We had to say goodbye to our dreams of being state champions and to four of our brothers as they were playing their last