...It was Friday night on the field and I was playing football. Where at the Palm Desert soccer park. There were a lot of fields, it is also a great park for kids. It was about 6:00 p.m so it was nice weather and the sun was barely out. That was the first time this season we were on field one. I was hoping we were going to play well this game. We always did good though, because we had one of the best players in the league on our team. We were winning by some points, I don't remember for sure. It was my second season playing football. I was an okay player on all my teams. The plays that we were doing were not so complex, unlike the NFL’s plays. Since they were so easy, I understood them well. This was the play when I caught the ball in the endzone. We ran halfway down the field to the end zone while I was one of the players who ran all the way to the end zone. There were so many smells like the green grass, the sweat on our team and the other team....
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...My soccer team A horror dream come to life It was 2015 in Oklahoma, Oklahoma city. We were in a game rounding up to a tie where we were 12 to 11. Our team were amazing but the other team came to a tie after an accident happened that could've been avoided. What happened was that the other team were playing all fair and stuff at the beginning but when we got at least 10 goals that's where stuff got interesting. The other team started playing rough were they would push us a lot trying to get the ball but didn’t succeed. So what the other team wanted to do is punch this kid who’s name was Richard, the best in our team and so they did, referee came and called foul as he went to Richard and saw a big bruise in his face but he was determined, he...
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...After one day of soccer camp, I started towards my dad’s orange Ford. I took my phone out to see who had texted me while I was working hard during soccer camp. I was scrolling down and I saw a text message from Joe Cappadona that read, “Do you like roller coasters?” My immediate reply was, “Oh yeah, why?” Joe told me that he was going to Cedar Point in Ohio in a few weeks and wanted to know if I wanted to go. Of course I had to ask my parents if I could go before I told Joe I could go with him. As I was getting in the car, I told my dad what Joe had told me, and his reply was, “Mom and I will have to think about it.” I was stoked. I thought to myself, “This could be the first time I go out of the state without my parents.” Later that day, my parents and I went to my grandparent’s house for dinner. The food was delectable as usual, but that was not the part I was worried about. I knew they were going to excuse me from the dinner table and talk about me going or not going to Ohio with Joe. They called me back in, and as I anxiously sat down, my mom told me I could stay with Joe and his family at Cedar Point. Filled with joy, I took out my phone and told Joe I could go to Cedar Point....
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...high school, I had to make a decision about what sports I was going to play since it was harder to do all of them, therefore I chose soccer. Playing soccer has been a challenge because of some difficulties, but it has also taught me so much. When I was in Matamoros I wasn’t able to join a soccer team because our financial status, but I would play with my cousins and also I would watch the soccer games on TV. It has been a tradition for the family to get together when a main soccer game is going on, especially if the national team is going to play. Also for main tournaments like the champions, the Olympics, the world cup, between...
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...“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” - Charles Swindoll. This was a difficult lesson for me to learn and I struggled a lot with making good decisions. About 2 years ago I was playing in a soccer tournament and my team had already won 2 of the 3 games we needed to win to go to the finals. We started our third game off well and we were up 2 to 1. It was the second half of the game and the other team was starting to get nervous. Their goalie punted the ball down the middle of the field and a girl from the other team ran onto it. I was playing defense so I went to get the ball from her, I missed and our legs collided. She was knocked to the ground. As I was turning around to prepare for the free kick they had received,...
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...U-15 team camp will continue to play a major role in my life. I expected team camp to be a magical time, therefore, I would build new friendships and learn valuable skills to help my soccer career excel. However, it was a challenge to change my teammate's minds with a gorgeous goal. The soccer field was covered in dew, due to the mid-August humidity. As I sat down to stretch, I realized everyone was staring at me. I believed the glares were because I was new to the team. However, I neglected to realize what they truly meant. No one believed I deserved to play for such an elite team, as I was only an eighth grader and they were all about to start their journey to high school. This made my stomach turn and I began to go haywire. I knew they my...
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...you have to put in. An area I believe that I am literate in is soccer. In my 18 years alive, I have put in countless hours, shed tears of both anguish and joy, persevered through the toughest times, and have been recognized for my achievements. In the process to obtaining literacy, passion is the driving force that ignites a reason to become literate in an area. Without a purpose, there is no reason to obtain any goal, let alone to become proficient and literate. Hard work and dedication are the forces that...
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...Growing up, I dedicated at least six to twelve hours a week to soccer. From personal training, to practices, camps, tryouts, games, and tournaments, the sport consumed my life. I unconsciously developed an unhealthy obsession with the sport and as a result, my perspective on life was very limited; soccer was the only thing that mattered in life. It interrupted the relationship I had with God, my family, and my friends. Although I could not tell at the time, the sport that I loved so much was negatively affecting almost every other aspect of my life. January 11, 2015 will be a day that I remember for the rest of my life; the day I tore my ACL and meniscus. I was devastated as I watched my dreams fall apart. It tore me apart physically, mentally, and emotionally. The only life I had ever known was being taken away from me. I had to wait over a month and a half to have surgery. The muscle in my leg began to deteriorate, and the last bit of hope that I was holding onto did the same....
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...I was sprinting down the wing, I hit the ball off the wall and went past the person that was blocking my path. I was one on one with the goalie and I slotted it easily past him in the bottom right corner. Or at least that’s what I thought would happen when I signed up to be on my first indoor soccer team. It was the beginning of my freshman year and I wanted to play on a soccer team since I have been following the sport for a few years, and have been playing it on my own time. I was invited to play from one of my friends, I was nervous, but I decided to play. A couple hours before my first match I thought how well I would do. Got with my team and started we to warm up and talk about tactics. Then something turned for the worst, my 5’2...
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...I have played soccer since I was five years old. My entire life has revolved around it and I couldn’t imagine not playing. From a young age I was a natural athlete so sports came easy to me. Out of all the sports I played soccer spoke to me most. As I got older I got better and more passionate about it. I fell in love with the sport and every time I play I feel this rush of adrenaline that brings me excitement. As I began to take soccer more seriously, my father began to notice that I was better than other children that were my age so he decided that it was best to put me in an older age group so I could challenge and make myself a better player. When I turned nine, I decided that I wanted to switch to a more competitive team that would challenge me even more so I went from my local team, Coral Gables Storm, to a travel team, Weston FC, which was about forty-five minutes away from my house. Even switching to a more challenging club I still played up to continue to challenge myself and make myself a better player than what I was. Then when I was twelve I felt that my time at Weston FC was over and that I needed a new club, so I went to Sunrise (about an hour drive). After Sunrise, came Boca United, which is the club I play for now and it’s even further. A lot of people think I’m crazy for traveling so far to play...
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...in my head and the majority of the time thought about it. Back then my dream was to become a professional soccer player . My parents and teachers knew I was interested in soccer. I was four when I started Playing soccer, and my goal was to become professional. Pumas was the team that I started playing in. It was a traveling team and all of our games were on weekends. I played with them for two years and won two tournaments with them. The first season with them was not a very good year. We lost the majority of our games and sometimes our team wouldn't show up to play. Fourth grade was my second year playing for this team and we had a great season. We won two tournaments one in Fort Bragg and one in Santa Maria. In fifth grade I joined a soccer camp over in San Jose. That camp lead people to professional leagues. I went to their camp for two weeks and practiced with them. Right before the season was about to...
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...I read with interest your posting for Head Women’s Soccer Coach at University. I believe that I possess the necessary skills and experience you are seeking and would make a valuable addition to your Women’s Soccer program. As my attached resume indicates, I have more than ten years’ experience with multiple NCAA, NAIA and Professional Soccer programs in the U.S., as well as, recruiting ties to many elite clubs, academies and national teams, both domestically and internationally. I also played soccer professionally for ten years on three different continents, representing England and Spain. Most recently, my responsibilities at University of Northwestern Ohio match the qualifications you are seeking. As the only Head Women’s Soccer Coach in...
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...Personal Narrative Most people’s goal for a bible camp is not to get in trouble ,but on the other hand I am not like most people. I was not actually planning on getting in trouble ,but if you would have seen my tribe you would understand how we were able to get in trouble and still have much fun. Most grades had a huge spread out from girls in 6th grade to 9th grade. For us though we had about all 9th graders so we were all very wild and fun. Well it was the third day of camp and we were suppose to be having an overnight in the woods ,but since it was raining like crazy we could not. The two Maras, Olivia, Shelby ,and I still made fun out of the rain including making a slip and slide with only the ground and ourselves. We were...
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...Khoa Nguyen English 1005 Assignment of Personal Sport Narrative Essay Date: 02/04/2011 The Unforgettable Tournament Last year, after summer vacation, I went to my student soccer team kind of sad. My past captain, the person whom I had really admired, had moved to another team. I did not really feel down, though, because many of my friends were playing with me this year. The greatest thing I had learned about soccer is “Team Spirit”, which I thought my team was full of. Day by day, we played together, joked in the yard, hung out after tired matches. I was so happy to have them as teammates. In my city, there were many rival teams, and they were always trying to pull pranks on each other. Sometimes nothing serious happened, but sometimes something really terrible happened. I remembered the time our team did not have any uniforms because someone has painted them. Luckily, we could have new uniforms, which I thought were better, but we also had to pay a lot of money for them. This season was not just like any season before. We had a new captain, and we were also playing competitive soccer, which was a lot different than our normal soccer. Instead of playing with other local teams, we got to play in big tournaments and against different teams from other cities. The games were also more vivid; I remember the first game, against a team from Hue City, the city next to my city. We called this “Derby Game”. It was totally different than anything I had seen, as we were getting...
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...fax (519) 6613882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2005, Northeastern University, College of Business Administration Version: (A) 2005-11-07 Nick Drake, Global Media manager (Global Media Group) for adidas, arrived at the company’s headquarters to present a bold new marketing strategy, based around mobile phones. “We call it the Brand in the Hand,” he told the senior marketing executives who had gathered to present their strategy for the upcoming year. The Global Media Group had been arguing that mobile marketing was the surest, and perhaps only, way for adidas to break free from the advertising clutter and fragmentation of traditional media. “Mobile is the most personal medium available,” Drake explained. “People run their whole lives off of mobile. It’s business, it’s personal, it’s information gathering. It’s on 24/7. With mobile, you have the customer’s complete attention.” The Global Media Group...
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