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of Asian origin that Sierra Leone played against on 5 April 1974. It was Sierra Leone's debut match out 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…

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…

accommodate better options, it is still widely known that Morley founded the first soccer rulebook (Simkin, 1997). A match between France and Belgium that took place in Paris led to the forming of FIFA, The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, whose official mission statement is "unifying the laws of the game to make it fair and clear to all players setting the foundation for all future football development." ("Story of FIFA - FIFA.com,"…

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 the treatment…

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…

In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls talked about her struggles in life, and I would like to explain some of the things I have endured in my life. I haven’t had the hardest life, but it hasn’t been the easiest either. I will be enlightening the readers about how I got through alcoholism in my life, and learning how to be an adult at a really young age. I will also be explaining what effect each person in my family has had on my life. My life relates to The Glass Castle because of what I have…

The film Friday Night Lights (2004) is based on the real-life story of the 1988 Permian Panthers football team in Odessa, Texas. The film follows Coach Gary Gaines, portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton, and his talented group of football players as they try to navigate through the season with the goal of winning the State championship. The pressure is on for the boys in the film, where they receive stressors from not only their sport and coaches, but also the townspeople and their parents as well.…

From what I have read and what I have seen in my life time is amazing, but the one thing that stands out is that the restaurant industry has grown stale. It has the same thing and does the same thing not one person has step outside of the box. I’m here to do just that. I’m here to blow the lid off the restaurant industry and keep it moving and a direction that it has been afraid to go. Like Robert Frost once said I’m going to take the road less traveled. The questions I ask are you willing to…

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…