Soccer Changed My Life Essay

Soccer has always been my love, my passion, and my outlet. If I have a rough day, all I have to do is lace up my cleats and step onto the field and just like that, all my worries drift away. I would always play for myself and no one else, it was my game and I thought that no one could take that away from me. Every time I played soccer I felt free, until the day that everything changed. I was no longer playing for myself, I was playing for a coach who was not easy to please. The moment I…

How Coaching Soccer Can Change Lives It was tied up 2 to 2 in a heated game between rivals in the state, my team got a penalty kick, I was up to take the kick. I missed, my team was frustrated and deflated but we pulled through because our coach told us not to give up and to forget about the kick. with a minute left we scored and won the game. This experience highlights how my coach taught me about adversity and have perseverance that I still have today. As a soccer coaches, people need to…

On November 1st, 2014 my life changed. I was playing soccer and suffered a head to head collision. Upon impact the right side of my body became paralyzed. I got down on one knee before experiencing a 2 minute seizure. When I woke up from the seizure I heard constant chatter, worried faces, and my legs were completely numb. I had slow reaction speeds and was confused as to what occurred. I was told I had a concussion and seized as a result of impact. This wasn't the worst news. I had to refrain…

Ever since I was young sports have always been a part of my life and they continue to be part of my life today. I am always playing a sport year round and I have played soccer, track, cross country, basketball, baseball, football, lacrosse, and ultimate Frisbee. When I was looking for a college I wanted to go to a school where I could play both soccer and track and that is the main reason I picked BC. Physical fitness is the most important to me, but emotional health is also important. When I…

In my life it is not necessarily experiences that have shaped who I am, but instead the people whom I have met during those experiences along the way. When I was younger I played soccer frequently and joined a local team that was coached by a man named Joe Di Lillo. At the time I did not know the importance he would hold in my life or how having known him in his last years of life would change me, yet looking back I find that so much of my self determination is rooted in both his life…

Did you know that a professional soccer player runs 48 kilometers, or 3.9 miles, in an average soccer game? Hard work doesn't just come from sleeping in soccer you have to work hard and achieve your goals. Soccer is a sport that is well known throughout the world and every day millions of people play soccer. The league is a collection of people, countries, or groups that combine for a particular purpose and people playing professional soccer in leagues are making money off of the thing they love…

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…

transparent bodies in soccer. The appointment of their own people into the different positions in their web of corruption has caused a great concern towards the soccer followers and supporters. The game cannot be called fair if any of a person who are responsible to manage and govern all of the in and out of soccer are corrupted. However, as being a soccer follower myself and been following it through most of my life. I can surely say that at this point of time the world soccer is not in good…

for build my self confidence. For me I wasn’t care about anything but playing soccer. I was interesting with sports other than studying. My thoughts were not right. I wasn’t care about my grads in the school. My dad loves me, and he was worried about my future. Also I was lazy and I wasn’t like studying. My grads were low, so my dad prevented me from participating in sporting club at this year. When I was in high school I was care about playing much than studying. I wasn’t care about my…

Stepping onto the soccer pitch for the first time, my heart pounded with adrenaline causing my hands to tremble. I looked towards my teammates to find where to stand as the newly memorized rules jumbled around in my head. As the referee blew the starting whistle, I mustered up the confidence and courage from within to play amongst my new found family. I kept my hands close to my sides in a last ditch effort to fight my natural inclination to swing my arms at the ball, like the years of tennis…