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Rapids Team During the summer leading to my sophomore year, I tried out to be on the colorado rapids youth soccer team. At first, I didn't know whether I was going to make it or not but I tried my hardest. I remember the day perfectly. Me and 3 other friends their names are Abel, Wyatt, and Kendrick. We were all lucky and got onto the same team with our couch ben. The first try outs were hard only a few people made it to the team. When I tried out I was going to play as the goalie and I did…

national team and government ripe with corruption, the fans will continue to show up for games. This proves that even with the protests and with Brail being a Trojan Horse, the corruption filled World Cup would still be a profitable venture. As the American Anthropological…

Among all of the school related and community oriented activities I participate in the most significant are Soccer and the Fayetteville Youth Council. Soccer has had such a positive impact on my life. I started playing roughly 9 years ago. After my younger sister, Hailey finished a recreation season she received a trophy. Although it was only for participation, I was envious. My mother told me if I wanted one, I’d have to play the next season and earn it. Maybe a trophy was the reason it began…

of of different types of artifacts in order to appeal to the different age groups. Children were able to enjoy the many attractions at the event, including the moon bounces and face-painting booths that they may have been used to seeing at other American festivals. Teens had the opportunity to attend the concerts featuring famous Ethiopian singers that most of them grew up listening to. They were also able to buy their merchandise and other Ethiopian-made accessories at the booths in the stadium…

Pele On October 23, 1940 in Três Corações, Brazil, soccer legend Pelé was born as Edson Arantes Do Nascimento. His parents were João Ramos do Nascimento who was Pelé's father and was also a professional soccer player and Celeste Arantes who was his mother. Maria Lúcia Nascimento and Zeca Nascimento are Pelé's sisters. Pele and his family lived in the city of Bauru. Pele grew up in poverty so it wasn’t such a pleasant childhood. Also Pele’s friends were the ones that first called him Pele. Pele…

Phyllis and Velma, two longtime regulars at the bar, sit listening to the jukebox as Willie was giving his best impression of the Platters, “I seem to be what I’m not you see, I’m wearing my heart like a crown,” although he can hold a note, a singer for the Platters [he is not], “Pretending that you’re still around,” Sipping on beer they have been nursing for over an hour. Phyllis and Velma are keeping a close eye on the clock. You see, this is their bowling night and it’s no accident that their…

Gavagan CJ, Sayers MGL. A biomechanical analysis of the roundhouse kicking technique of expert practitioners: A comparison between the martial arts disciplines of Muay Thai, Karate, and Taekwondo. PLOS ONE. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0182645. Published August 25, 2017. Accessed February 5, 2018. Purpose: The purpose of this study was first, to determine whether there were differences in the roundhouse kicking leg kinematics performed by highly skilled…

Did that really just happen? “Come join us at soccer tryouts next Friday at the main field after school!” read the big, white flyer which I had picked up previously in the week after hearing about this eye-opening news during morning announcements. I was sitting on the bench outside reading the details as I waited in line for the person whose reaction I was most anxiously waiting to see. As a 5th grader, my first instinct was to alert my mom right away, which is exactly what I did as soon as I…

Did you know soccer is the number one most popular sport in the world? Well it is. According to international federation of association football also known as FIFA, there are over 2,00 soccer clubs registered. Let's examine the history of soccer and how things have changed in the time, investigate the rules of the game and how it is played and discovered the health benefits that come with playing the sport. First, we are going to be examining is the history of soccer. Have you ever…

The bar. Just precariously perched on two small ledges. Sitting there on its personal pedestal, it taunts all those waiting their turn to try clearing it without dislodging it from the sleeping place. Waiting above the heads of the brave few, looking down like a king on his lowly plebeians. The bar. It sits, and waits. The bar has nothing else to do but sit. It will wait for anyone, everyone who endears themselves a challenger for the height it rests at. It lies, like a physical embodiment…