Essay 1

Challenges

Life is cool and everybody have to enjoy it, but in every life we have things that can make our life hard and that is when you have to be always positive and never give up. As humans, we always have goals and dreams, those things become a purpose in your life and make you give your best to achieve them. The thing here is that you always have challenges in your life and those can make you forget about the goals you will want to achieve. I am going to talk about how I have reach, the challenges that were in the road of my dreams.

All my life I have played soccer and as all the sports you have to be patient because always you have to deal with challenges, and that is the great thing in sports. I have played for soccer teams in San Isidro, Heredia; but I found one called Estrella Roja, the trainer called me to go and play with that team and I accept.

 When I get there it was like a normal team but with something really different they were like a family, and for me that was strange because in a soccer team it is hard to see that everybody has a good relationship. But well this team was perfect for every soccer player, we were in a tournament the first year (LINAFA), this tournament was for all the country, so it was hard to win it. But we think that it was not impossible, and we try it. First we have to win the region of Heredia and we did it then after winning in Heredia, the next step was play against the best 32 teams in the country, the thing is that you play against another team and the one who lose the game, has to go home.

So we started the second round and after winning the first game we were like “Oh God we did it”, the next round will be the best 16 of the country, and we made it again, now we were in the best 8 of the country, the challenge here was that we did not have enough money, but we made things that gave us earn money. We went to the next round against Hatillo and we lost the first game 2-0 in our home, but we still had a chance if we won the game 3-0 in Hatillo´s soccer field we will pass the round, that was a big challenge but not impossible we have trained all the week for that game, the trainer gave us motivational speeches.

In the game, we were winning 2-0 and by the 80 minute of the game, we scored another goal, which was unbelievable. Now we were in the best 4nthe next step was to play against Saprissa , we lost again 2-0 the first game, but in the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, we tied the game, and then we went to extra time, in the first extra time we scored 2 goals and that was how we won that game and qualify to the final.

The final was one the best experience I have had as a soccer player, we have to enter to the game as the professional soccer player do, yes! With the fair play flag and the teams flags walking thru the field; the first game we lost by one goal, and in the second game we lost 2-1, we could not made it and Liberia was the winner of the tournament and we were the second place. It was very sad but then thinking about it I decided that we were not losers I mean it was so hard to get to the final but we were the second best team in a tournament for all the country.