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The Day I Forgot When your going to a soccer game, you never know what's going to go down or what's going to happen. This particular soccer game changed my view on soccer and life itself. We were playing Woodbury, it was back in the 5th grade. My dad was my soccer coach at that time. My closest friends were on my soccer team, so it made soccer really a fun time for me. The game was going good so far, we were winning 2-1. But everyone knows that that’s the easiest time for a team to come back…

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As long as I can remember, I’ve been a fan of soccer. Growing up in Europe, soccer was a very popular sport and was played by every child in its early years. I was born In Switzerland, being active and taking part in sports has always been a necessity in growing up as it is with almost every kid growing up. The reason to which I decided to pick soccer rather than other sports was mainly due to the reason that I am more of a team player rather than playing alone. It is understandable that making…

An identity that has accumulated throughout my life could be expressed as a student athlete. As a child, I was always attracted to the idea of playing sports. As soon as I came about the age of four, my parents enrolled me into soccer, baseball and speed school. Juggling between sports, extracurricular activities, and other household chores; my parents expected me to excel in all of these occupations. Between all of these obligations, sports became an alleviation for me, a part of me that I…

Soccer is one of the most popular games in the world because of which many people are indulging themselves into playing this sport. It is one of the games that requires both upper body strength and lower body strength in equal amounts. Also, it requires an extensive variety of wellness to play at an elite level. This is what makes it harder to train for. You require not just leg strength and speed, but also cardiovascular fitness, center quality, rate, heading ability and dexterity. All of this…

You outside playing soccer with your mates, and you try to cross the ball across the pitch with your right leg. Throughout the rest of the game you feel a burning sensation in the groin area. The next morning, you try to go for a run on the break of dawn and half way through your run you have to stop because your right hip still haves that burning sensation from the night before. Morning comes again, it’s a school day and now you are having pain in your upper leg as well as your right hip and…

I would like to be Lionel Messi, because when I was little I saw this very short person for his age playing in my favorite LBBVA 1(liga espanola) soccer team FC Barcelona. When I saw him play it was like magic, the moment he got the ball you could see the opponent's gang up on him because they knew if they gave him space he would score. Lionel Messi is the person who brought me back to soccer because when I saw him play in the Champions, it made me think, "look at those moves, damn, I want to be…

This image depicts sports stars as heroes as despite their active lifestyles and big pay, they still have time to help in the community with underprivileged people. In this case it is soccer star, David Beckham spending time within poverty stricken community and helping the younger kids out The salience of the image, which is the part which are eyes are first drawn to, is Beckham and the three young boys. This is because of the composition of the the image. The background has been blurred in…

The day that would ultimately initiate the hunger for success was a day that I believed in myself and had faith in overcoming adversity. The week began in my freshman year when my close friends convinced me to try out for the Men’s Varsity Soccer team at my school. At the time, I had never played soccer a day in my life so, of course to anyone I was guaranteed to not make the team. Well, when I went to try-outs, I was struggling to keep up but I would always give it my all. Each day, I went to…

Smack in the Face Imagine you were on a mission trip. The group you were with got done with the first job you had to to then you went to a boys and girls club, and a kid ask you to go to the gym and play game with him. So you play with him and you throw a ball at one of your friends as hard as you can, miss miserably and hit a kid in the face. I went on a mission trip up to Duluth Minnesota with Carl Kruse, Dillion Bathke, Connor Jurens, Seth Sproke, Cole Riemersma, and a few others. It was…