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For all of my life I have remembered myself always playing soccer. I remember always being at the sidelines for my brother's games, and eventually when I became old enough, I was signed up and ready to play. Throughout the early years of my soccer career I ha ....

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.... to be called, and just barely made the team. I was the "scrub" of the group, I always sat the bench, and never started. I was the kid no one wanted to be stuck with in partner drills and the kid no one wanted to pick to fill up there team when we scrimmaged ourselves. I was the kid who had to pick it up or be cut from the team, something had to give. My fourth year on the team was like the ending of an era. Our three best players on the team had informed the coach before the season started that next year they would be leaving the Strikers to go play in the premier league. I, having struggled all throughout my Striker career was shocked, b ....