Soccer Update

I don’t feel like I have a long history of soccer or that huge passion for it. I don’t feel like playing soccer every time of the day. I’m not trying to learn every new trick I see. So why did I chose to write every single entry about soccer? I’ve been trying to answer myself that question since a few weeks and I’ve still haven’t reached a conclusion with my answer. I never really thought about playing soccer before last school year. Back in Honduras, I was dedicated to ballet and I was really in love with it. Of course sometimes I had my doubts about staying in the classes but almost all of the time I loved dancing. I loved going out on stage and being able to do what I wanted. Another thing I liked was that the light was on me and that I wasn’t able to see the audience’s faces. This way I wouldn’t worry about their faces or whether they liked it or not. I wasn’t worrying about pleasing them but about enjoying the moment myself. The last year I was in Honduras before moving here to Costa Rica, I was really in the group of the best ones in my class. I was chosen to be in front for the presentations. I had important parts in the play. I was starting to get comfortable with the pointe ballet slippers and I was in love with ballet. When I came to Costa Rica, everything changed. I started having classes in a new academy but my inspiration was taken away. The teacher wasn’t interested in what I had learned in Honduras and she sent me back to the regular classes. She lowered my category and sent me back to where I had worked so hard to get to the top. I was disappointed and degraded. After that I stopped dancing ballet and just went to school. Since I had to do exercise, I looked for an afterschool activity to do. The options were volleyball, soccer, and basketball. I was completely against basketball because I just don’t like it. Volleyball had already started so my only option was soccer. I had never considered soccer because it had always been my brother who played soccer and I was the one who danced. He had always been very successful in soccer and scored uncountable goals. He was the soccer star in my house as I was the dance star. When I decided to play soccer, I told my parents who didn’t believe me. They thought I wasn’t going to last more than that season. I wanted to prove my point to my parents that not only my brother could play. I went to all the classes and tried my best but I wasn’t used to that kind of sport. I had bad resistance and couldn’t last that long running. Obviously, I wasn’t even close to my brother in soccer abilities. That season, I didn’t do well at all and I was disappointed. I don’t recall playing that much in games and when I played, I didn’t do much. This year, I played in the soccer team again and everything changed. I believe that I improved a lot … and I scored my first goal! I really felt proud of myself and I couldn’t wait to tell my parents. When I told them, they didn’t believe me and then they congratulated me. Later on, I played in all the games and I felt like I did a lot this time. We ended up champions…out of four teams…but we all felt proud anyways. Of course I couldn’t compare myself to my brother because it was just impossible that I was better than him, but I felt proud of myself. I think that the moment I scored the goal felt like every time I went on stage to dance. To remember that feeling was like the awakening of passion for soccer. After that, I wanted to score a goal in every game, but that didn’t happen. Even though it didn’t, I had that encouragement to get better, not to impress someone else, but to have that wonderful feeling again. The season ended even though I would’ve wanted to keep going but it ended. So why did I chose to write about soccer? I haven’t answered that question but I think I got that inspiration from a wonderful feeling that resembled to the one I got when I danced ballet. The bad thing is that writing about soccer is not as fun as playing it. I still don’t think I have that inspiration and love for soccer like my brother. There is another person that I think really is in love with soccer and could not do anything else than that. That person is Lima. His blog is lima77.edublogs.org. If what you are looking for is many things about soccer, I thing you should take a look at his blog because he really has that inspiration for soccer.

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I know probably everyone who reads this post knows what soccer is but i would like to define it and explain the rules and concepts of this sport before I begin giving informing news about it. Soccer is a team sports with two teams of no more than 11 players. It is considered that it is the most popular sport in the world. Soccer is played in a rectangular grass field with two goals on the opposite sides. The goal is to manage to take the ball to the other side and get the ball inside the goal before the goalkeeper catches it. Each team consists of 11 players which include the substitutes and the goalkeeper. Thee only player that can touch the ball with their arms and hands is the goalkeeper.

At the beginning of a game or after a goal of  the opposite team, there is a kick-off in the center of the field. The two players that are going to kick the ball may be the only ones inside the circle. When a ball completely crosses the sides of the field, there is a throw-in. This throw-in has to be made by a soccer player from the opposite team which got the ball out. The ball must be thrown with both hands and over the player´s head. The player cannot jump or lift any foot when throwing the ball. A goal kick is made when the ball has crossed the goal line and a goal hasn´t been made. If the person who got it out was an attacker, then the goalkeeper kicks the ball. If the ball was taken out by a defender, the it is a corner kick. The corner kick is made by an attacker and the ball is kicked in the corner where the ball went out. Offside is one of the most complicated laws. There is an offside when an attacker is behind the last defense player and recieves the ball.

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