Association football culture

For my non-verbal communication activity, I decided to go to the Ethiopian soccer championship tournament this year that took place last weekend in the University of Maryland, hosted by the Ethiopian Soccer Federation in North America (ESFNA). This was a unique non-verbal experience both in the sense that it was a sports event (rather than the conventional idea of a performance or art showcase) and also due to the fact that it was a foreign-based event hosted in the United States. The target…

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…

Scoreboard Design For this scoreboard project we need to be in a group of two people. We need to make the result, which a person sit on the table, face the door of our classroom and use a design to make this person able to see the scoreboard on the soccer field. For our design, we used two mirrors two straight tubes and one straight tube with two 45-degree elbows. First, we cut the tube with elbows into two pieces with the same length. We used tap to tie the mirrors on the both sides of the…

The U.S Women’s National team won the 2015 World Cup held in Canada. The U.S team defeated Japan 5-2 in the Cup finals. The previous world cup finals the U.S.A women were defeated by the Japan team. This was the first world cup win since 1999 which the United States hosted. Within the 1999 tournament the United States Women placed 3rd over China. Some highlights from the game were that Carli Lloyd scored the fastest hat trick in world history. Her first goal was in the third minute when Megan…

At the age of five years, he shad began playing football for Grandoli, a association traind by his father. In 1995, Messi changed to Newell 's Old Boys. At age 11, he was identified to have a growth hormone deficiency. River Plate showed attention in Messi 's growth, although did not have sufficient money to pay for…

Game day. I wake up and that is my first thought. Although it is not the first game of the season, so many emotions are running through me. Western Dubuque is a great team. There is crappy weather coming our way.I need to eat breakfast. Their leading scorer is 2nd in the state for goals. All of these toxic thoughts flooded my mind. One thing I did not know that morning is that I would take the biggest emotional and physical blow later that day. The feeling I get whenever I step on to the field…

When you look back on life you will have traveled to many places, seen many things, and met many people, however there are some places you go along the way that will impact you forever, and leave you with many stories to tell for all your friends, and family to hear. I know I am still young and have not experienced nearly half of the journey’s that I will go on later in life, nonetheless there is one place that I will truly remember for eternity, and most certainly tell my children about. That…

My daughter and I took our annual trip to the soccer specialty store to buy goalie gloves. This trip is necessary every year because pre-teen girls grow out of gloves quickly, goalie gloves do not really last that long and old goalie gloves smell something awful. My daughter is the full-time starting goalie for an outstanding U12 team. The team plays in a regional league and top tournaments. It's some serious soccer, so I wanted to get her some serious gloves. Before we went to the store, I…

Importance of energy systems involved in performance: During a soccer game, each energy system is applied with various intensities from low to high that are used. It can be hard to establish which energy system is used most frequently during a game of soccer for a defender. This is because there are many different movements performed with different levels of intensity that change throughout a game of soccer. For example, a defender will usually sprint and then stop, walk, jog and then sprint…

Enhancing health and well-being is an important aspect of everyone’s lives. Exercise can benefit a person physically, but more importantly mentally. Various exercise activities can improve mood when you are down and even eliminate stress in your life. It gives you a chance to escape your everyday routine and have some time to your own. Exercise, whether we know it or not, is an important aspect of life from the time when you can walk all the way until the day you die. In order to stay on track,…