''My first goal of head'' by Alexis Saldana

Alexis Saldana
Language Arts 1st hour
Mrs. Ott
September, 2009



‘‘MY FISRT SOCCER TEAM’’

I remember the wooden goal and the metal goal, the field was with a small amount of grass and a huge amount of sand. I felt kind of nervous to play soccer for the first time on a team, I felt like butterflies flying in my stomach. The first game my team lost, I think. The second game I made a goal almost from half field. When I score I got so happy I let my self fell down on the ground, I smile, because it was my first goal from two games. I could never forget when I fell down I got hit by little rocks, that were on the ground, but it hurt me on my back. My teammates gave me a high five after I score my first goal. After I score my goal it passed only less than one minute to the referee blow the whistle. The next game the other team beat us so poorly. I felt angry to not score one more goal. I thought we were such losers, but now I understand that nobody is perfect. I said to myself “not always there’s a happy moment”. The next game was ruined, too. We have lost one more time, all this soccer is not for me, I’m a failure, I said to myself.
All this happen when I was on Mexico. On 3rd grade was my first soccer team. A physical education teacher makes up soccer teams by grades. My soccer team was Spain, 5th grade was Brazil. My team only played two or three, games but I only remember the game: Spain vs. France (the game my team won, I scored my goal almost from half field) on 5th grade were my two cousins, they were Brazil. I also have another cousin on 6th grade (on Mexico’s schools elementary school reach to 6th grade) my 6th grade cousin’s name is Manuel; my two other cousin’s names are Mauricio and Eduardo. I could never of the never could forget my best cousins, I never played any game with any of my cousins; I almost forget to said that 6th grade was Italy. My cousins were good at soccer, when I was on Mexico sometimes I even went to their houses to play soccer, I almost forget one more thing about my cousins, Manuel and Eduardo are brothers, Mauricio is just their cousin from me and also from my other cousins, but now I don’t know if they are good or better at soccer. I played with a real soccer team named golden eagles, now by ages a teammate and me are on another team with different kids; I’m starting to like better this team then the other. This team’s name is Santos, the color of the shirt is green with lines across the shirt, and I wish some day I could be good at soccer as my dad. My dad had showed me how to play; he had told me that he was good when he was like my age. There’s a really good kid that his name is Beto, and he is forward. My position is mid fielder, only one time I had been forward. That day my team scored eight goals, I scored only two from those eight goals. I wish some day I can be a champion as my dad.