Team management

He has set an example for many other young soccer players on his team as he is the second captain. “‘What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.’” - Lionel Messi” (Shawn Lim, 2017). This represents following a dream and being passionate about something. Messi is doing what he wants to do, therefore showing kids that…

Birth of a Legend : Leander Paes at the Atlanta Olympics “All I can promise is that every time I go on court I will give my best effort.” It is as simple as that for the 43 year old Indian tennis legend. But to do it for 25 years on professional tour is not that simple. It takes character to sustain for that long, it takes guts to compete every single day and it takes courage to believe you can still go on. Leander Paes is an inspiration. He is a role model for all the children growing up in…

Well this day goes back to freshman year when I first started to play soccer for East Noble High School and this ends on my senior year, I’ve been playing soccer for 11 years but not for East Noble. I first started out in NASA a soccer program that allowed kids to play and get taught soccer not the space program. This value taught me to always stick with my goals and push every day to do my best at anything I do. Freshman year soccer was an interesting year because my that freshman years was…

“Investigating the Relationship between Team Cohesion and Self-Presentation among Different Competitive Team Sports of Ethiopian Universities”, T.A. Haddera (2016) was looking at cohesiveness within a team dynamic, “because it’s not only associated with group level outcomes such as performance but also with individual outcomes.” Again, this reinstates that there is a paradoxical nature to team sports in that you have individuals that then make up the team. When looking at team sports from an…

My first soccer team Occasionally friends become similar to a family. One of the best decisions have ever done was sign up for a local soccer team. I was a genuinely shy kid. However, I loved (and still love) soccer. I didn't know at the time how attached I would become to my team and how much teamwork mattered. Assuming I knew beforehand, I would have joined earlier. To start, I was ridiculously excited when my parents told me that they were signing me up for soccer though I was a little…

Five years in a row, undefeated each season, had the best team in the league. It was just another Sunday afternoon, my team and I were prepared for another championship game. Going into the games we held our heads high, knowing we were the defending champs for five years straight, never losing a game, and absolutely destroying our opponents by large margins of victory. It was the Huskies vs. the Heat, you could say they were our rivals, but we knew that they couldn’t handle the competition we…

soccer club. There are two teams divided, one for amateurs and the other for the professionals. As a newbie, I was put in training with other beginners. Day by day, I practiced in the back-up team while looking at the other team training across the stadium, wishing to soon be one of them. I cannot stop imagining myself wearing my school’s jersey and playing along with many talented players in front of admiring eyes of people. At that moment, being qualified for the school team was the dream.…

player Pushed me to enhance my skills. When I began playing club I realized the extreme differences between Club and Recreational soccer. Recreational soccer had an average of three to four good players on each team. Recreational soccer was meant to be fun but also competitive. Each team also had…

target, my passing and dribbling were horribly going wrong. By the end of the day I wanted to go home because I knew in my head that I didn’t make the team. I don’t think those 2 weeks weren’t enough time to actually make the team but with that being said, Not everybody is perfect, for example I felt positive about actually making the soccer team, honestly thought I was going to make it, but sadly things won’t turn out the way you want them…

that we are free of the fear of having to go on visits. I wanted to also let you know how my life live is going. I am 16 years old and a junior in high school. I still love playing volleyball and this year I was the starting setter on the varsity team where we made it to playoffs. My goal is to get a scholarship to play college volleyball, and I already have several schools talking to me. I want to work with children so I am planning to major in Education. I also play club volleyball…