Personal Narrative: Soccer

Soccer, the most popular sport around the entire world, is one that not only takes a lot of skill, but a lot of time and hard work to get good at. My favorite sport is Soccer, I have played it since I turned two. I got inspired to play it because of my brother. At that age you really do look up to anyone older than you and an example of that is my brother. I thought he was so cool able to run down the field with the ball gliding next to his foot and I wanted to do that too. The whole community brings something together that everyone shares. It does not matter your race, height or religion when playing soccer. Everybody shares the love for Soccer and that brings everyone to one. When you’re playing a game, it is not about winning or losing, it is the friendship you form with your teammates, the teamwork and coordination is really why it is fun for me. The whole game is not ever reliant on one single player, everybody …show more content…
We started out just learning how to kick the ball and pass as none of us were professionals yet. Our coach, a short blonde lady in her 30s told us to dribble the ball down the field. I had never really played Soccer before this, although I knew the rules, or at least I thought. I grabbed the ball and start trying to bounce it across the rough, fake, too-green grass. My parents started laughing. I was distraught. I thought in my head, “Did they think I was bad at Soccer?” I knew I could not dribble it perfectly but why were they laughing? After a minute or so I saw the other eight or nine kids kicking the ball with their feet. I thought they were out of their minds for not following the rules and not dribbling the ball when told. My Dad started walking over to me and told me my wrong doing. “Cole, not the dribbling in basketball, but dribbling it as in kicking it with your feet,” chuckles Dad. If a two year old’s face can turn red I did just that. After that I dropped the ball and started to kick