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My father as my soccer trainer
Mauricio Hijuelos
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My father as my soccer trainer
My father is a very good soccer player, he always has his cleats ready to go out and play with me. When I was a Little boy my father was always thinking in new ways to teach me new things in soccer because he always wanted me to be the best of any team I played on. He always was searching for equipment for new exercises, for example of free kick, penalties, dribbling, etc. and together we went to a sports club for us to use all the equipment to practice. Every time I had a soccer game with any team he was there checking what I did well or what I did wrong. There were games in which I pay excellent and he was so happy with me but always telling things I could do to be better, but also there was games in which I didn’t complete the expectative, and my game was not well, and he got mad with me all day, and then after a couple of hours, he would come to me and tell me in what I need to improve so I don’t have a bad game again, and he apologizes with me for being mad. My father loves to play soccer videogames with me, and that was also a way to teach me new plays or moves so I can apply them in the next games, he gets very frustrated when the videogame doesn’t respond or do what he wants, and it was very funny because he got mad with the videogame just as he got mad with me. My father also was always searching for soccer games in which we can play together in any Saturday or Sunday league, because he loves to play with me in the same team. I remember in a game in which we were losing 3-0 and he just came and told me, lets do our plays we practiced last week, and I just did the task as well as I could, and everything went perfect, every play just went excellent, we score five goals, and we won that game, and the two of us were to happy of that game. The amazing thing to me is that even though he was not playing in any official league anymore, he trained with me just as if he was doing it, and it was amazing and it will be always be amazing for me to have my dad as not only a soccer trainer, but also a life trainer, he is the best for me, and he will always be.
