Resilience In Football

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The smallest person on the field, learning that instead of being the aggressor I had to survive and strike only when safe. Always being told you're too small to play football these are just some of the things i was told. But i will prove it to them i'll show them all they're wrong. And that i can play football and not just play, but excel that is what i kept telling myself.

From the first day of football i have always been below average in size but i had always made up by playing the game strong but this was never easy everyday in practice i would get hit hard and knocked to the ground but i got up every time more aggressive than the last. This constant exposure to being beaten helped me build a resilience in whih whatever i try i will do

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