Soccer: A Personal Journey of Competition and Growth

Being a competitive person can bring out the worst in you and sometimes the best. Playing soccer for me relieves most stress and also creates stress or drama on the field that go away when you step off…..most of the times. I have played soccer for as long as I can remember. But only played for a competitive team since I was ten. All my weekends were full with league games or tournaments. One Saturday morning I had a recreational game out at Paul Klover, I played PKSA just for fun in the off season from my travel soccer team. The game of soccer is a physical sport some people would disagree but the sport has more contact than most people think. I’m a physical player which I hold my ground and don’t let others get in my way or push me around

My mom made me apologizing while I thought that was not necessary and stupid at the time since she had been shoving me all game. Now as I look back and realize what I did, apologizing was the right thing to do. When people would bring it up and talk about what I did I would just get embarrassed and mad they had to share that story. For a while I regretted what I did, now I can look back at laugh at how feisty I was at just ten. Ever since then it has been a standing joke and is brought up quite often about my hold my cup moment. Every time I would be worked up about something everyone would say let's not have another “hold my cup moment”. McKenna and I joked about if that might not have happened if we would have been as close as we are. That day McKenna didn’t know what I was going to do but if she did I don’t think she would have talked me out of it, to this day I don’t think she’d be the friend to talk me out of my dumb ideas. Lucky for me my temper has gone away and i've grown up and know better to go shove a girls after the game. The real way you beat them and get under there skin is win and play better than they