Importance Of A Tryout Essay
During the end of my freshman year I had received an email asking if I could attend a tryout to see if I would make the team that would be heading over to Europe to play soccer. When my mom told me that I had to go to soccer I asked her why, she said that I had a tryout to see if I would be picked to go to Spain and Portugal to play in two major international soccer tournaments that are held there. When I was told this I was very excited. I went to soccer on the weekend to go to the try out. I had got there and my two best friends were there so I was really happy. Then the practice started, we all started off doing the same thing. I was having fun and I was doing good. All in all the practice went good. About two days later I received another
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Our games where 1 hour long. But we played in the scorching heat. So it felt like it was the games where very long. But on every game I tried my best and always gave it my all even though we might have lost some games. My coach had told me that even though we lost that we can always take something positive about the lost. For example we lost a game 1-0 and he told us that the positive thing about the loss is that we know things that we can work on because we know what our weakness is. Knowing this we can take this looks and use it to our advantage because we now know what our biggest weakness is. From that game on we didn't lose a game on until we made it to the finals. We were the first American team to ever be in the finals. It was a very tough and entertaining game but in the end we lost in a penalties shootout. After the game we were all very sad and frustrated. We then got together and ate lunch and watched the next final. Then we went to the ceremony where we got out second place medal. Then we got too go to France the next day and we went to the beach. The beach was very fun and the food was very good. Once we left France we went got back to Lisbon. On our second to last day in Lisbon we went to the beach for the whole day and we were able to do whatever we wanted. At night we got back to the hotel and the hotel held a special dinner for us. Which ended our stay in
Our games where 1 hour long. But we played in the scorching heat. So it felt like it was the games where very long. But on every game I tried my best and always gave it my all even though we might have lost some games. My coach had told me that even though we lost that we can always take something positive about the lost. For example we lost a game 1-0 and he told us that the positive thing about the loss is that we know things that we can work on because we know what our weakness is. Knowing this we can take this looks and use it to our advantage because we now know what our biggest weakness is. From that game on we didn't lose a game on until we made it to the finals. We were the first American team to ever be in the finals. It was a very tough and entertaining game but in the end we lost in a penalties shootout. After the game we were all very sad and frustrated. We then got together and ate lunch and watched the next final. Then we went to the ceremony where we got out second place medal. Then we got too go to France the next day and we went to the beach. The beach was very fun and the food was very good. Once we left France we went got back to Lisbon. On our second to last day in Lisbon we went to the beach for the whole day and we were able to do whatever we wanted. At night we got back to the hotel and the hotel held a special dinner for us. Which ended our stay in