Personal Narrative: My Passion For Soccer

The passion for soccer
I had never thought about how much impact soccer has had on my life until I started working on this assignment when I had to answer the question “What is my passion?” The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question; soccer. The next question I instinctively asked myself after that was “Why?” Again, the obvious answer came to my mind; simply because I love it. I thought there was no need to elaborate more on that. I simply assumed that those words were enough to express my thoughts on the matter. However, when I started to ponder deeply about it, I realized that there was a much deeper meaning behind those words that goes way beyond the game itself.

The goal of the game
Soccer is one of the

Although there is no straight forward answer as to where soccer actually began, it is commonly believed that the sport was born in the early as the Han Dynasty in China, which was around 200 B.C. It spread from Asia to it was not until 1815 that England became the first country to record the rules of soccer. The Cambridge rules were made which are now the official rules. The Chinese never thought that passing around a ball would later become the most popular sport in the world, leading the sport industry with a net worth of over $400 billion today.

What sets it apart from other sports?
Soccer has long be referred to as ‘The Beautiful Game’ and in my opinion, it well deserves this title. It is a sport that has no room for weakness. All the players have the duty of showing amazing endurance throughout the whole game. A basic adult soccer match consists of 90 minutes gameplay, divided into 2 periods known as halves. Each half runs continually, meaning that the time does not stop when the ball goes out of play and there is only a fifteen minute break before the second half begins. So, it is vital that the players have outstanding stamina to endure such long