Instructor: Jeff
English; 1101
Date: April 30, 14 Soccer Rituals
Soccer is a team sport, played by toe teams competing to score goals in each other. Evry team should have eleven players, and seven players are stand by.Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world. For me, it was a family hoppy because my father does play it and my entire uncle did. My brothers and I had been going with my dad and watch him play. I had the passion to play soccer because of them and I was wanted to become as a famous player in Saudi Arabia Majed Abdullah. From that moment my sibling and play it and like it very much. Also, we were fans to Al-Etihad FC as my father does because most of children want to become like their fathers. My father once bought for us a football, so my brother and I keep play with it and watch soccer matches to learn some skills. Furthermore, when we became good player, we start to play against my cousins and our neighbors. We won in all of games we took medallions. After that I was plan to win on my brothers and get the medallion from them to look a hero on my father eyes, so I started watch a lot soccer matches and soccer animation. I learn a lot of skills such as how to shoot by left foot, how to skip from the player, and how to pass the ball under the player and that happen when I was in second grade in elementary school. I start to collect my team from my cousins and my neighbors, so my oldest brother and I made a competition and we asked my father to judge. So I won the game and my dad was surprised of the way I was played, so he gave me a hundred SR is about $26 but in that time it value a lot because when my father gave us 5 RS we feel like rich.
Soccer is more than a sport; soccer player are a folk group with rituals and informal tradition. In this research I will define a ritual and how is related to soccer.
What is a ritual?
A ritual is a particular type of tradition that many folklorist as a distinct category of