Association football

Let’s talk about my soccer experience. Nah, let’s call it futbol, the real futbol. I’m from Honduras, a place where the sport that plays the most is futbol. I started to play futbol when I was maybe 5 years old. Oh, men, I was a super fan. I loved it so much. It was everything to me. The only thing in my schedule was futbol and nothing else. My life was surrounded by only soccer. I joined the school futbol team and my city team. I went to both practices. During lunch, I used to play futbol with…

The Keeper Mal Peet wrote books best known for young adult fiction. His first novel was The Keeper, which is a novel under the categories of young adult fiction and sports fiction, took him three years to finish and was started when he was at the age of 52. The book is about one of the world’s greatest soccer goalies and how he got to where he is coming from a small, poor logging town. Mal Peet wrote The Keeper is such a unique way. It includes tension, mystery, and excitement. It’s memorable…

The idea to be athlete never interested me. I was couch potato that watched too many movies. Unfortunately, this led me to become overweight. That’s when I decided to try out for the only sports team in my middle school, basketball. Surprisingly I didn’t make the team. Later, in the year a soccer team was formed. I tried out for the team. I was selected for the team regardless that I didn’t know how to kick the ball in the right direction. Even though my team never won a game I knew that I…

After playing soccer for nearly my whole life and eventually playing competitively in high school, I have grown a passion for the sport. This is why I decided that I would take up coaching as a way to gain some experience in the world of sport management. Luckily, friend of mine asked me to help him as an assistant coach for the under-12 soccer team he was coaching in the Ormond Beach Soccer Club recreational department. I saw this is a great opportunity to gain some experience in coaching and…

Kevin Meza Personal Narrative Blue Ninjas November 14, 2017 One special event that has happened to me was when my dad first teaches me how to play soccer. When he first taught me was in our Guatemala vacation and we went to the field with my cousin and he started to show us the basics about soccer which was passing, shooting. I really wasn't doing good because I didn't even know how to play soccer or even kick the ball in the direction my dad was asking to kick it to. The first days it was…

Many times I have come to find that success is hard to obtain, and failure is inevitable. Soccer has taught me many lessons, from working hard to never giving up. There have been many instances when failure was the only option but I overcame it. In the first years of my soccer career I began on the local soccer club's B team. But after a few years of great perseverance, I was able to make a spot on the A team. Although I was happy with the progress of moving on to a better team, I was…

“I hate soccer!”, Jim yelled. Jim stood in the dugout alone with his arms crossed and eyebrows furrowed, focusing on the ground. Being Jim’s partner for the my high school’s Special Olympics program, I ran over and convinced him to come play soccer with us for just five minutes, promising that we would do something that he wanted to do later. I led the practice along with five other soccer players, practicing as a team with eight of the special education students at our high school. Each of us…

In the life Elizabeth Marston a 10-year-old girl featured in the article “Were You Born To Be A Sport Star?” she explains that she had always dreamed of becoming a professional soccer player. Elizabeth eventually became one through working towards her dream. Dreams can make the world a better place. Dreams can lead to dedication which leads to success. You can make your dreams a reality. Dreams inspire students to be great because dreams help the world become better, they lead to dedication…

“Soccer mania has a definite foothold in Central Florida and the man who triggered it is Phil Rawlins,” UCF President John Hitt said as he introduced Orlando City Soccer Club Founder and President Phil Rawlins to a room of about 130 UCF students, faculty, staff and soccer fans. The UCF College of Graduate Studies invited Rawlins to be the guest speaker for the final presentation of the 2015-2016 Graduate Studies Speaker Series on the afternoon of March 30. The event was held at UCF’s Morgridge…

Soccer is my favorite sport because it just gets your heart racing and the idea of the game is to try to score on the other team in their goal. Most people who have been playing it their whole lives will tell you that it’s not easy but it will take some practice. It can be really fun if you put your mind into the game and don’t get distracted. Soccer is known to be the best known sport in the world depending where you’re from most people will tell you that soccer is their life because just…