Personal Narrative: My Best Soccer Player

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My cousin is probably one of the most naturally talented soccer players I had ever seen. Not so much for myself. I had to work really hard to be skillful with ball control, shoot on target, to not panic in stressful situations. I was never the star player on any team I had ever been on, but I always tried hard and practiced a lot. Practice doesn't make you perfect, but it does make you better.
I was in ninth grade,and midseason, my coach, Ms. Borman, was teaching us a new play that we could implement into a game. It was a torrid afternoon. The sun blazed down from a cloudless blue sky, beating heavily on the fields, radiating the heat to cause the practice to seem even worse. The only task left we needed to accomplish was to perform the play …show more content…

At first, I was just interested in playing the sport and enjoying time with friends. I’ve now been in the sport for 8 years and just began indoor soccer in the winter. Soccer is a year-round sport, at least for me it is, that has always kept me on my toes. We have practice 5 days a week and a game either in the middle of the week or on a Saturday. Busy doesn’t even begin to describe the chaos that goes on during my average school year. Nevertheless, all the chaos can’t be worth …show more content…

I've never been more invested and in love with something that I was doing. Soccer has taught me numerous lessons one of which being, dedication. In order to endure a two-hour practice every day, then practicing skills on my own time, and an hour twenty-minute game it is necessary to know what dedication is. It's been crammed into our heads to be strong, passionate, and never giving up on what we are doing. I've learned to be strong in the sense that every day I feel down or exhausted, I've learned to push through it. Never missing a practice even if it's the worst day of our lives. I've learned to show up taking into account that I'm not just out there for myself, I'm out there for every guy on the field playing with me. Soccer has taught me passion seeing I've never felt more love for anything I've ever done in my life. I'm proud to show up to practice every day to become better and feel the drive that radiates around each person on the field. Also, winning the game, everyone smiles with joy and cheers because that's just how much passion is in the air. In closing, soccer has taught me to never give up. If our attack fails, or we are down by two or three, we keep pushing on because we believe that we can beat this team. If I'm working towards a new skill, whether that be a new move or shooting a curve ball, I work harder and harder to achieve that skill. There is no “I can't do it” in

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