Personal Narrative: My Soccer Career

Starting my soccer career at ENSA in the fall of 2007, I did not know all that the soccer community would offer me. Not only did it provide me with a team experience, but it offered me a chance to look at the great game from a different side. Playing on a soccer team taught me how to be a team player. It showed me how to include other people to achieve one goal. The team had to work together in order to play the game. A team cannot have just one player doing all the work because it will not work out in the long run. As the saying goes, there is no I in team. I am grateful for this experience at such a young age because I was able to include these new skills into my every day life. I’m now able to work in a group setting and work in an efficient way to complete our work. I was so excited to be able to have the chance to become a soccer ref. Not only was I going to be able to play, I always was going to be able to make a job with the sport that I loved. I started riffing in the fall of 2012. I only had a chance to ref a few games before my life changed forever. I found out that I had to have knee surgery and I was going to be …show more content…
While I was working my way back to the playing field from my injury, I was able to return to reffing before I was able to play. Reffing offered me the chance to return to the sport I loved soon than was expected. Without reffing, I would have been sitting at home, counting down the days until I could play. Being apart of the soccer community at ENSA has not only offered me opportunities as a play but also as a ref. I was able to take the lessons learned from playing on a team and apply them to my everyday life. With being a ref, I have the opportunity to help young players understand the game and to improve. Reffing also helped me return to the sport of soccer sooner than I expected after having knee surgery. It gave me a reason to be involved and to see the soccer world from a new

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