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Leadership Experience
Jose Alfredo Villacis Morla
Global Leadership
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Being one of the captains on my high-school soccer team Leadership experience happens everywhere, every time, and people don’t realize them until your followers or the situation let you know you are acting as a leader. Definitely being a leader is not easy. It depends in different factors or abilities. One of them is the personality of the person who is trying to act as a leader. The other is the position because in most cases the leader will have to put him or their group in a position which will benefit all of them and in which the result will be positive too. Lastly is the expertise, leader are not born or made.
For this paper, the leadership experience I choose is in my last two years of high-school I was named one of the two captains of the soccer team. As you can see being chose by my teammates and coaches as the capitation of the team is something we can definitively say that they saw as a leader or mentor of the group. Back in high-school, I played outside forward and I was the striker of my team. It was my junior year when I was named as a captain. At the beginning of the year the team named two senior players as captains. During the first month of the season one of them got injured during a game and he ended having an ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) on his right knee. This injured was a huge impact to the team because he was one of the best players on the team and the best mentor the team could have. One of the philosophies of my high-school soccer coach was that a team always needs at least two to three captains. After two weeks from the incident, I was called into a meeting with my coach. During the meeting, they told that since that afternoon I was named the other captain of the team. The reason were that I was improving really fast in my soccer, that I was the striker of the team, and that the other players were watching me as an example so because of all this reasons they made the choice

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