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continued with his football career, playing for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. During his college career, Calvin received numerous awards including the Biletnikoff Award in 2006 and Paul Walfried Trophy the same year. Furthermore, he was named the All-American Team two consecutive years, 2005 and 2006, he also set a record for the Georgia Tech football team, as most yards received in college career. Calvin`s professional career began with the 2007 NFL Draft, as he was picked by Detroit Lions…

The laughing sweaty children of El Trapiche reminded me every day since arrival in Managua, Nicaragua why I quit soccer when I was seven. Before I could even think about scoring a goal, I felt a warm familiar body wrap tightly around my leg. I looked down, saw Mario tugging at my trousers and reaching for the ukulele I carried on my back. He officially cracked the code of my weak defense. Forget soccer; I should have stuck to playing music in the first place. My daily trips to the school to the…

“Don’t cry.” I repeated this to myself over and over as I, a fourth-grader at the time, nervously walked onto a soccer field for my first practice ever. “Just don’t cry.” The cool fall breeze ruffled my hair as thoughts of regret swirled around in my brain. “Why did I sign up for this?” I glanced around at a sea of unfamiliar faces as my new coach began talking. Sounds of cheering and laughter mixed with the screeches of whistles as I tried to ignore the butterflies fluttering in my stomach.…

I could relate to with this word because there was a time where I felt I was going through it and experiencing a sympathetic division. It was Sunday in the afternoon and my little brother, who at the time is ten years old, was having his soccer game take place. Crowds around the field were very tense because of the two teams being big rivals. As well as the crowds be tensed up so were the players with each other. While the game went by there were many times in which the players were having…

In freshman year of high school, I decided to try out for the freshman soccer team. I had not played for the middle school team but I had played for a club outside of school. Most of my teammates were also trying out so I decided that I should try out too. The first round of tryouts were two days long after school and the second round was one day. Out of the 34 kids that tried out, ten would be cut in the first round. On the first day of tryouts, we were doing all kinds of passing, shooting,…

The first thing you have to do to play soccer is you to have speed. Also, you have to have control over the ball. If you want to play this sport well you will need cleats, shin guards and shorts. Then, you have to get strengths in your legs so you can kick the ball hard enough so when you try to make a goal it is more likely to score. Also, the positions you can play are Forward,Goalie,defense, and midfielders. Also, If you are forward you are more likely to score goals for your team because…

At the top of the Gulf South Conference board and now ranked 23 in the nation, the women’s soccer team hoped to remain undefeated at home against Spring Hill College on Friday, October 16, and West Florida University on Sunday, October 18. On Friday, the Tigers prepared to take on the Badgers, eager to improve their record towards the GSC tournament in November. Although the Tigers were 8-3, the Badgers were desperate to prove they are good enough to compete with quality teams, despite that they…

The first Argentine soccer league was put together in 1891, which makes it the third oldest league in the world. In just a short two years soccer leagues in Argentina had gone viral and so the Argentine Football Association was formed in 1893, making it the eighth oldest soccer association.…

I’m five years old and in my first ever soccer game. Everything is going great, my parents are on the sidelines cheering me on and I’m having a blast. This is the first sport that has captured my attention and I’m overjoyed. Then it happens. The ball is kicked and I’m in the way; it hits me square in the face. While my mother jumps to save me my father gently reminds her that soccer’s a contact sport. I stand there stunned for what seems like forever, before running off crying to my mom. It…

City Year exists as an education-focused nonprofit established in 1988 in Boston Massachusetts by Michael Brown and Alan Khazei. What City Year does is become partners with various public schools in order to help keep the students enrolled in attendance and on track to graduate. A team of young AmeriCorps members are brought together to commit an entire year of full-time service to these schools. AmeriCorps members focus on a few important key things while servicing the schools: they support the…