Personal Narrative Essay

I was only 5 years old when I entered to my first soccer team and I was also very short, my coach use to call me “el chaparro” which in english means “The short guy”. My parents didn’t force me to play, I wanted to play on my own. I wanted to play because when my dad took me to a soccer game at the Philadelphia Union Stadium I saw a famous soccer player named Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, he signed my shirt and told me “Tu vas aser un gran futbolista.” which means “You’re going to be a great soccer player.”, and that’s what inspired me to play soccer. I joined my first soccer team because when I first saw my uncle play it made me want to play, my dad took me to play soccer at a soccer field and I loved it, and also because Javier “Chicharito”
I saw my uncle play a soccer game for the first time and I really enjoyed it because he would have the mostly the whole time. I always felt like my uncle like my uncle was the best soccer player out of the whole team. One day afternoon my uncle told me that their soccer team made it to the playoffs. I was so excited and I was ready to go to the soccer game. I got to the soccer game and all the benches were full, there was no more seats to sit on, so I sat on the grass. After a long 90 minute game my uncle’s team had won in first place, but before the game started my uncle was in despair moment about winning the game because the other team was challenging, but I made him feel better by giving him solace. One other reason why I decided to play soccer was because my dad took me to a soccer field, so I can start knowing the process on what is like playing a real soccer game. When I first started playing I wouldn’t know how to kick a soccer ball. So, my dad kept teaching me and teaching me, after 1 hour of training, I would finally kick a ball right. Now I just had to know how to do free kicks and penalties. It was very difficult doing free kicks because you had to kick the ball far away from the