Persuasive Speech About Cleats

This one I’m 110% sure that you’ve experienced. Getting stepped on, gotta love it. No matter what position you play, it’s likely that you’ve been stepped on in some way (most likely on your foot). It’s something that’s really unpreventable, you’re dribbling the ball down the middle of the field, a defender comes out trying to steal the ball and their foot gets implanted over yours. It’d be nothing serious except for the fact that every player on the field is required to wear soccer cleats. Considering that we only have shin guards as protection, it kind of sucks. Except for the padding in the actual cleats there’s no way for us to really prevent getting stepped on. Either way I’ve got to say, it could be a lot worse. Professional soccer players wear METAL cleats. I’ve been stepped on with regular plastic and rubber studs, I can only imagine what kind of pain they go through.
Since we all know this pain, there’s nothing we can do but feel guilty when we’re on the defensive side and step on someone else. You apologize, get cursed out, and go on with the game. It’s even worse when there happens to be a goalkeeper in front of you as you stretch your foot out to try to reach a perfect lob. A goalkeeper actually had a major injury about 2 years back. David Zibung reached out for a ball and the striker accidentally stepped on his face while the goalie was still lying on the ground.
Being a defender I have a lot of one on one contact with players of the other teams. In my last season of soccer I actually got stepped on bad enough on the perfect spot that I had to go see a doctor about it. You could see right through my toenail and notice that it was literally purple. Eventually the nail just fell off and I had to wait for it to regrow. Pretty disgusting, I know. Have you ever had an injury due to get stepped on? Feel free to share your story with me and other readers in the comments