Colin Chase
September 30, 2010
Block 5
Free Write
Soccer
Soccer. Where would we be without it? If we never had soccer our hand/eye coordination would be less then it is now. We would not have half of our sports that we have now. Also, a lot more people would be overweight. Soccer is a big thing . It's the biggest sport in the world.
Soccer came from England and the European soccer league started in 1878 from different railway companies going against each other trying to see who stronger and wiser. The best team was and still is Manchester United. They started right in the beginning and is still progressing forward. They have the best players in the league at one time throughout the years. They have Cristiano Ronaldo. They have the youngest player ever to play in professional soccer which is David Gaskill. They also had my favorite player at one time, Cristiano Ronaldinho. He has the biggest feet in the league and the fastest feet at the same time.
Now if we did not have soccer, those people I just mentioned would not help the world like they do everyday. They give money to charity, they help with the needy, and they also have saved people from playing soccer. There was this one story that threw me. There was this guy that was sick and he was very ill with a type of cancer and he was going to die very soon. So he asked the doctors and his cancer association he was with if he could go to a professional soccer game. They talked for a while and finally let him go because it was his last chance to taste freedom. So he went on a Sunday. When he got there he had a blast watching his favorite sport play. Well during half time they let him go on the the field and kick a ball. Then when he kicked the ball, After he did, fell right to the ground and everything went quite. They all ran to him and rushed him to the hospital and found out he died for 10 minutes, then came back to life. When he did come back to life then did test and test and did not find a...