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Personal Narrative: A Career In Soccer
I will define myself with my talent. My talent is soccer by the way and during my school years I had always been on soccer. I think that this soccer talent is heritage from my family. I started playing soccer at Roma Middle School and my coaches saw a future on me. I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it to the team because I was chubby and for this sport you got to be on shape. I didn’t give up and as a seventh grader, I was already playing as a starter on team A. I was with fear because I had never experience a game related with school or in which ever place of the world. My coach was motivating me to try as hard as I could to beat our classic rival game against Ramiro Barrera Middle School. We won one to zero at the last minute with my goal. …show more content…
I was still going to practices because as a very young age it’s hard to find someone as the same talent as me. As a ninth grader I made a beautiful pass to my teammate finishing it with a great goal and with this goal we won the game and claiming our pass to the play-offs bound. As the summer came around I was just being a lazy person not practicing soccer anymore, and I was running slower than normal. I didn’t know that not doing nothing on a summer was affecting me on my soccer skills. I believe that as a tenth grader was my terrible year because I got injured once again but this time it cost me my whole year out of soccer because I did a sprint and my hand stream pop. I started to pray to God that I didn’t want to lose my soccer talent, because is part of my life that helps me get all my problems out of my mind as I play with a soccer ball and more with my teammates. Anyway, that year was on other words thrown away to the trash. As my junior year I was recovering from injured but as I did I was unstoppable as the old days, my soccer talent didn’t get away thanks to God and my coaches motivation favorite quote was “don’t use injuries as excuses, and keep playing as you always did” having this on mind was when I realize that everything or almost everything was done

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