Soccer Analogy

High school and soccer are like one in the same. In high school a little success is key, like in soccer. Nobody goes to a soccer game saying “I am not going to try. I am just going to lose,” or else they will lose. In order to have that want and drive there needs to be something that pushes a team− the want to succeed. The same goes for a person going to school. If a student chose not to try then they won’t succeed. In both soccer and high school all it takes is a little effort and drive to reach a little success and something to be proud of. After a person has decided they want to succeed that is when everything starts to fall into place to lead them on that path to success.

Soccer is a sport that takes dedication. As the years go on, everyone in the league gets better and the bar is set higher. It takes dedication to keep up with the rising level of play and really reach where a person wants to be. The same goes for high school, the more a person dedicates themselves to school and is consistently becoming a better student, the better a student will become. Guaranteed.

As a defender in soccer, I am required to be a very patient player in order to help my team succeed and for me to pull my own weight. In soccer a player can’t be impatient or they could let their whole team down. A player has to persevere and get the job done. With patients and perseverance comes success. In high school, as the years go by high school gets less and less interesting and most students’ just want to give up and just glide through everything. But, if a student isn’t patient they could risk letting down all their family and friends and that’s why they have to persevere through the boring stuff and get through it and succeed.

In high school, there is an ultimate reward, and that is when a student reaches the final goal− graduation and finally finding out who they really are through all the years of hard work and struggles. The same goes for soccer, there is a final overall goal that all urn for in the end, and that is that a player gets to play the game they love with their friends and have the time of their life growing and becoming who they are through the years.

At the end of the day, soccer and high school go hand in hand, high school is just another game that everybody tries to win, and everyone has to be patient, dedicated, persevere, and remember the end result− that through it all a person can find who they truly are just like soccer.