Personal Narrative: My Love With Soccer

When I was 7 years old I fell in love with soccer. It was a Sunday night, my dad and his friends were watching a game on T.V. It was a match between Brazil against Spain. I never really paid attention to soccer, but that night my uncle, my dad little brother, forced me to watch the game with them. I didn’t really understand the rules or the point to the game, but my dad and uncle would take turns explaining why is this player is throwing the ball or why is that player kicking the ball into a wall of people in front of him. Throughout the whole game I notice one player. He was playing on the right side of the field on the Brazilian team. His name was Ronaldinho. The way he played was mesmerizing. When he has the ball, he control it with …show more content…
I read sport magazines and books about soccer. My first day at practice, I got dress and Ahmed and I walked over to the dirt field the team held practice. Once we got there, we warmed up and started doing drills. Looking out onto the field I realize that, I might not know much about soccer or be good at it, but my teammate were not even decent players. After the practice, Ahmed and I walked home. Ahmed was probably the only good player the team had. When I got back home, my uncle asked me how my first practice went I could’ve told him how terrible the team was, but I just told him that it was a really good practice and every player is really good at the game. I love soccer and want to be the best at it, but that was just a big dream not likely to …show more content…
The next days, we put in overtime during practice and work extra hard hard on everything we thought they team needed. We played probably seven matches to try and meet my uncle’s objective, and failed miserably at every attempt. Realizing that the chance of us winning a game is very low, he gave up and took over as our new coach. On our first day of practice with him, he just let us practice while he observe. After the scrimmage, he told us that the way we practice is just out of control. He told us that every player is running around the whole pitch, wanting the ball for himself. He also wanted each player to tell him what position they play and stay and guard that position. He reorganized the whole line-up and placed each player on the position that best fit them. Lastly, he told us the most important thing for a team to have before going out there on the pitch is chemistry. The following weeks we didn’t have any matches so we spend most of that time building the chemistry between each player, and working on passes, crosses, controls, and dribbles. The months after my uncle became our coach, the team showed a lot of improvements. Our first win came during the neighborhood competition cup, we were playing against a team that has beaten us numerous times. That day we brought home a 3:1 victory. During the competition we lost some of the match-ups, but by playing with chemistry and with skills we made it to the