Association football

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,…

Broken. Completely broken. That was the state of my foot during the first of many of my deranged soccer tournaments. I had not had a respite yet the whole tournament, but I was anticipating one. It was our 4th game, it was a beautiful day, the sun was out, no clouds were in the sky. It was time to play the game that would determine if we would win the championships. I played center defense, meaning that I am the last line of attack so that the ball will not go into the goal. It was a vigorous…

I also play with Hotspurs with the 2003 girls. With the academy, I personally learn more, since it’s more difficult playing with the boys. It’s also more difficult in the sense that when I go for a one v one, some are much bigger or much more skillful. With hotspurs, I’m mainly there for the games and the fitness. With the girls, I'm kind of tall and I have more skill than most of them. In my opinion, it isn’t challenging and I don’t improv on anything. I started playing soccer when I was about…

from 1987 to 1997. He made 407 appearances and scored 108 goals during his time with the team, and won two league titles and one FA Cup. He also had 79 appearances for England, played in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups and was twice the winner of the Football Writers’ Player of the Year award. He was on the receiving side of some very vicious racial abuse from fans and players as well. He was racially abused in a game against Everton by their supporters in the Merceyside derby at Anfield. He was…

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…

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…