Graduation Speech: Playing Soccer For Rivers Baptist Soccer Club
In 7th grade. I Played soccer for Rivers Baptist Soccer club we had won every game except for one game. We had 15 teammates ready to go and play the grand final the field was spectacularly green and very soft we were versing North Lakes Soccer club. Our coach Andrew had been training us, so we could get to this very point. 5 minuets before the game Andrew gave us a speech we then all listen to hear what our positions was going to be the whistle blew time to get out on the pitch.
Once we were 5 mins into the game we started to pick up our game. North lakes had he best start that we ever saw from them. Our defence was strong, strong enough so that North Lakes could not get through to our goalkeeper. The heat was insane even though it was in winter. In the first half we kept taking shots and missing them they either hit the goalposts or went over the crossbar towards the end of the first half we weren’t playing as hard as we were earlier. We were …show more content…
We were running up the sideline of the field sprinting our hearts out just to get to the opponents goal, and as I ran up the sideline my coaches speech went through my head and how he told us not to give up. I passed the ball to one of our teammates and he passed it back to me as soon as I ran around a defender. I then passed to another teammates the one of the players on the opposing side went in to take the ball but had kicked his leg instead. The referee blew his whistle for a penalty kick which was really good because it was inside the goalie box. Our penalty shooter Elijah went and stood up at the penalty spot he walked back A couple of paces and as he took the shot the goalkeeper dived the other way and so Elijah won the penalty but even though we thought that was great we still knew that the game hadn’t
Once we were 5 mins into the game we started to pick up our game. North lakes had he best start that we ever saw from them. Our defence was strong, strong enough so that North Lakes could not get through to our goalkeeper. The heat was insane even though it was in winter. In the first half we kept taking shots and missing them they either hit the goalposts or went over the crossbar towards the end of the first half we weren’t playing as hard as we were earlier. We were …show more content…
We were running up the sideline of the field sprinting our hearts out just to get to the opponents goal, and as I ran up the sideline my coaches speech went through my head and how he told us not to give up. I passed the ball to one of our teammates and he passed it back to me as soon as I ran around a defender. I then passed to another teammates the one of the players on the opposing side went in to take the ball but had kicked his leg instead. The referee blew his whistle for a penalty kick which was really good because it was inside the goalie box. Our penalty shooter Elijah went and stood up at the penalty spot he walked back A couple of paces and as he took the shot the goalkeeper dived the other way and so Elijah won the penalty but even though we thought that was great we still knew that the game hadn’t