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It was one of the most rainy days of the summer of 2014 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and I had one of the biggest soccer tournaments in my life. My team was invited to this tournament called The Friendship Cup. This tournament was a six team tournament and your team has to be one of the top teams in your state to be invited. My team is called Blitz United and at this time we were top three in the state of Oklahoma. It was an honor for my team to be in this tournament but no one actually believed that we…

I was in Boise Idaho in a tournament sponsored by Adidas. This was also my first soccer tournament with a traveling soccer team, called “ IF Bluebirdz.” My dad and my mom with my brother had come with me. I was a the mide in the team, which meant I was never doing nothing. The tournament was international, so the teams were top quality and they were. My team had been practicing non stop for this tournament, even though it was the first one of the season. We were ten mins aways from the soccer…

Soccer is a widely known and recognized sport in the world today, and one can say that there are more causes as a result of soccer then there are causes of soccer alone. First, we must look at what the sport does to your body. According to livestrong.com, “One of the most prominent benefits of playing soccer is its ability to improve your cardiovascular fitness level”. Furthermore, “soccer demands a great deal of muscular strength. Explosive sprints, quick dribbling moves, shielding an opponent…

Angel Reyes Mr.Douglas ERWC 13 Sept. 2017 A frightening experience Back when I was 12 Years old, I had a frightening experience which I will never forget. It was mid-day on a saturday morning and I was at a soccer tournament. My team and I had entered the tournament because they were giving a thousand dollar reward to the team that took first place. My parents had just dropped me off at the park that day and had to leave because my little brother also had a game that morning. A few hours go by…

African and Sierra Leone lost by 4:1. Football is the most popular sport in Sierra Leone. The governing body is the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA). The SLFA was formed in 1960 and has been affiliated with FIFA beginning the same year. There has been and continues to be trouble within the sport in Sierra Leone. In the past, however, the country has achieved a modicum of success in international competition. The Sierra Leone Premier League is the top football league in Sierra Leone,…

College football; america’s favorite fall pastime. For many nothing is better than sitting back and watching the boys of fall. It’s a great source of entertainment, way to meet new friends, and have a good time. Many people’s best memories are made because of college football. However, recently the athletes have not been too fond of the sport. They feel that they are doing so much for the sport, but are receiving nothing in return. They feel that they should be compensated monetarily. Some of…

In 2012, I joined my first organized team sport, soccer. It was in late August and my mom asked, “Adriane, your dad and I talked about you getting involved in a team sport and thought you might like to join a soccer team.” I had no clue on how to play soccer, what the rules were, or what the positions were! We looked around for different clubs in the area and mom decided I would play for a county league called Severn Soccer Club (SAC). A week before my first practice my mom said, “We are…

final match in Germany last year ("FIFA.com - FIFA World Cup™," n.d.), which only stands to prove how well liked the games are. The sport stands to emphasize national identity, as some games require national representations. Football started out in China ("Who invented football | Soccer history, year & country of origin, start," n.d.). The first practices of soccer were in China's Han Dynasty around 3,000…

Prior to the rape of Chloe, there was a time in the locker room after practice one day when the football team had conversation regarding “easy girls” in the school that would be available to have sex with the team after they had chosen one. The team continued to joke about how “all girls are easy.” They describe how all girls want sex just as bad as “guys want sex.” Some of the boys on the team even go so far as to say that girls have described fantasies of being raped as a way of making them…

I have been playing soccer since I was three years old, and throughout the years I have learned all the basics that need to be known about soccer. I have been practicing my skills in order to become good at what I do. I can honestly say that I have become really good at what I do. Soccer is not just a sport to me; it is a sport I have been playing for years, a sport I grew up playing with close friends, a sport where not only boys could play but girls could play as well and sometimes girls and…