Soccer Case

When I was a little kid, I always wanted to be like my older brother. The number one thing that my older brother did was play soccer, so I started playing soccer when I was young. Even though I was little, I would go to practice with him, take a ball, and dribble on the side. The coach always used to tell me what I was doing wrong, and I would fix it immediately. I took that mindset to school and fixed whatever the teacher was telling me I did wrong. Soccer teaches me discipline and to be the best that I can be in sports and academics.

Soccer started out as a fun, but violent game, and turned out to be the most popular sport in the world. Soccer was played in England, but it was nothing like the sport we see today. There was kicking, punching, biting, and gouging. Soldiers started watching the sport and enjoyed it because of the violence. They started skipping archery practice to watch them play. King Edward III banned the sport because of the violence and the soldiers skipping practice.

In 1815 soccer started to become a more civilized sport. The English school and Eton College came up with a set of rules for the sport. They called it the Cambridge rules. The Cambridge rules consist of 17 rules. A referee enforces those rules. The referee has two assistant refs that run on opposite sides of the field and determine fouls, and offside.

Soccer not only disciplined me as a player but also as a student. Whenever my coach told me I was doing something wrong I fixed it. Whenever he taught me something I learned it and I practice. He once told me to take my attitude on the field and take it with me off the field. So I learned that in school all I had to do was pretend that my teacher was the coach. If my teacher told me I did a math problem the wrong way I would fix it. If she said that I spelled a word wrong I would learn how to spell it and never misspell it again.