My Passion of Soccer

Soccer: a sport played by many, loved by many, and watched world wide. There are so many reasons to fall in love with this intense, competitive sport and here, you will read several of them. Soccer, or fútbol, depending on where you're from and what you call it, is about a 70-80 minute game that is split into two halves. There are two teams playing against each other which contain eleven in each that have eleven different positions.













The goal of the game is to dribble down the field and work with your team mates and get past the opposing team and get the ball in the back of the net behind the goalie and get as many goals as possible.



My interest in this sport began about eight to nine years ago and here I am now, still playing the game. It all started with wanting to play more and more sports as a little girl and when I found soccer and started practicing, I absolutely fell in love with it. The speed, the energy, the skill needed, the team work; everything was so appealing to me as a lover of sports.




I've played all of the field as a player. My beginning positions varied because I was so little but I normally played forward. I loved that position because the feeling of scoring goals and getting past other players boosts your confidence more than you could ever imagine because of all of the encouragement. As the few years passed of playing on rec, I moved to a more competitive team because the coach saw me play and requested that I try out. After making this new team, I moved to playing keeper (goalie) and found out that I had talent in goal. About two years later, the coach changed because we got older. He saw my ability to boot the ball and my control over the ball so he thought it would be a great idea to put me as a forward again and I stayed there for the rest of the season, subbing in as keeper maybe two to three times that season only because I was the only other option. However, once another season passed, we got a new coach, which is our coach right now. I played forward for maybe three or so games and then I had to go back to defense because they knew I was tough and could take a few shoves because there was no other person. The coaches happened to love me in that position because I wasn't afraid of the ball at all and I could boot the ball really far if needed and I helped tremendously in the back. So, here I am now, about two years since that change, and I'm still playing center back. On my travel team, the one I've been describing, I'm team captain and I'm also on the JV team here at school as a captain as well, loving the sport more and more every practice.

(Just in case you didn't know, I am in the white)