Over the weekend I had a huge Soccer Tournament in Grey. We had two games on Saturday and one game Sunday. In the first game we played a Cumberland club team and beat them 2-0. In our second game we played Westbrook and won 5-0. So at the end of the day we were 2-0 and in first for our bracket, but winslow was also 2-0. Going into Sunday we had to beat South Portland by two goals and not let them score. We ended up tying them 3-3 and we got eliminated because Winslow beat Westbrook 4-0.…
It had been a long and tough game. The sun was beating down on us and we were all tired when all of a sudden the game’s time limit ran out. We were all tense because no one knew the score. The ref said that the game was tied. We all exhaled. We hadn't even realized we were holding our breaths. That meant we all had to do PKs (Penalty kicks) until one team won.…
When I was ten years old I tried out for my local travel soccer team. I did not expect to make it, but by some stroke of luck I did. I started playing and it was not what I was expecting. In the past I averaged a hat trick every game, but travel soccer was a lot different. I started playing defense, but that might be an overstatement, because I did not get a whole lot of minutes. I knew that if I wanted to play more I was going to have to put in more work outside of practice. I started practicing everyday switching from running, to foot skills, to agility training. I probably spent more time complaining about it and there were a few time that my parents had to push me to practice, but I knew that I had to put in the work.…
ADD A BEGINNING Soccer was everything to me. I would go to my Mom and Dad and say “Lets go play soccer!” Add more right here. My dream was to go to OU and be on the women's soccer team. Little did I know that was all going to change.…
It all started at ninth street with some friends of mine John and I started recruiting some people to come play football with us. I honestly didn’t know I had a pretty decent arm. I originally was going to start practicing to play wide receiver instead of quarterback. At the time Odell Beckham Jr. ( wide receiver for the New York Giants ) was extremely explosive and dynamic on offense. Seeing him blow up on offense made me want to try out for wide receiver. But somehow John convinced me to play quarterback.…
Last year, it was my first year when I work in the female soccer team from my old high school. This was a soccer team where I was a goalkeeper trainer. This team was the high school soccer team representing the local High school. The purpose for our team was to win all the games against other schools, another of our goals was to have fun and to stay active; my personal goal was to train the goalkeepers the best I can and make them better soccer players. The best reward we all get was the feeling of been the winning team, the feeling that we all get after realizing how hard work has paid off. That is always the best feeling, to win games. The best reward I get personally is just to know that I trained the goalkeeper the right way, and they had…
First, when kids try out for sports teams they learn important life lessons that will be helpful later on. According to “Us Youth Soccer” it says, “Tryouts are one of the many experiences in youth sports that prepares us for situations in our adult life, such as college applications, job interviews and more.” This shows that when you try out under this pressure…
think of a time when you worked extra hard for something and you accomplished it. What did you feel? a sense of joy and accomplishment? well that’s what I felt in these next few stories Imma gonna tell ya.…
“Cameron, you can’t play football you’ll die,” My mother told me in her usual serious tone, I could always count on my mom to keep it 100% reality even though I hated it. I wanted to play football so bad for three years I've literally had dreams of me playing defensive back, my wishful position, and being able to play with my emotions and do very well. I stopped pursuing football even though deep down I was still set on football.…
This year i was planning on being minne mouse because that's what my sister was last year and she wanted me to be it so i am going to because it is easier and i wanted to be that anyway but i like halloween because it is scary, and it is in fall and it just has us one step closer to christmas and last year i was a soccer player because i didn't play soccer last year i just stopped for a year but i started again this year. I like carving pumpkins with my friends or family…
Have you ever wanted to quit something because of someone trying to discourage you. When I was younger in about 3rd grade I played soccer and I had a nice coach. However when a certain man named Chuck came up to the coach and asked if he could be assistant coach. Little did I know it would be the end of my soccer career for a while, and I wish it never stopped.…
After losing in the second round of the soccer playoffs, my team was wondering what we could do to improve. The improvement in soccer that we needed was not that of technical work, but instead more game experience. After much thought I came up with the idea to try to join an indoor soccer league. Although it was very easy to set up the team, it was extremely difficult to get the players to commit to coming every week to the game that was scheduled. I had set up a group text and would ask each player if he could make it to each game and would hold them accountable to their answer. At the start of our first game I felt as though I had successfully accomplished what my team originally set out to do. We had made a team and were showing up to games,…
It was the day before the first soccer game of the season, I was eating a protein bar and watching some vines on youtube. It was about 8:30 pm, I decided to go take a good shower. When I was done I got ready for bed. Then I dreamed.…
Has there been a time a decision was made for me and I did something about it? Yes, decisions have been for me, either by parents, teachers or friends. At some point in my life decisions had been made, whether it was my parents, siblings or elders.. For example when I was the coach of my high school soccer team, some players agreed and some disagreed with my game plans. My school is a unity school, we had a sporting competition and we had the teams of different groups.…
Starting soccer when I was only five years old was challenging because of my October birthday I had to play with all the six year olds. My parents had put me in soccer because I was a young boy filled with too much energy. After playing soccer for about a year I decided I wanted to do more, I loved the sport. I started playing club soccer when I was 7 years old, playing for under the wing of Charley Amblo. This was a training team only, it was not till I was nine that I was started playing for a travel team. This was the beginning of where I learned my leadership, time management, and teamwork dynamics.…