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Personal Narrative: My Improvement In Soccer
After losing in the second round of the soccer playoffs, my team was wondering what we could do to improve. The improvement in soccer that we needed was not that of technical work, but instead more game experience. After much thought I came up with the idea to try to join an indoor soccer league. Although it was very easy to set up the team, it was extremely difficult to get the players to commit to coming every week to the game that was scheduled. I had set up a group text and would ask each player if he could make it to each game and would hold them accountable to their answer. At the start of our first game I felt as though I had successfully accomplished what my team originally set out to do. We had made a team and were showing up to games,

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