Soccer, my life

Soccer for some people is just a word, for others is just a game. For me, soccer is my life, my passion, it has helped to shape me into the person I am today.
From where I come from, soccer is like our religion, a lifestyle, a way of living.
I have been playing soccer since I was a little kid, since then I have played on all levels of teams including tournaments, school, etc. Each was an opportunity for me to learn and improve as a player and a person. There is a beauty to playing soccer or watching a game that words cant express. I get lost in the fluidity of soccer. Soccer is an art and art is motion. A simply joy that allows me to feel relaxed, it helps me to enjoy life. I quote "Soccer is Life" and "Life is Good"

I used to be on a soccer team and it was so much fun until we got a new coach who just wasn't good at all so pretty much the whole team quit. Most of us went to another team but I didn't go back cuz it wasn't fun for me anymore. You know who does LOVE soccer though...the Brits!!! I don't think that I've ever seen so many people be so enthusiastic about a sport than them. I was there for a family vacation during the soccer season and if you're not a Manchester United fan...LIE AND SAY YOU ARE lol

Football, more commonly known as soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a ball. Soccer is considered to be the most popular sport in the world.
The game is played on a rectangular grass field of 100 meters in length and 75 meters in width, with two nets on opposing sides. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball in the opposing net. In general play, the goalkeeprs are the only players allowed to use their hands or arms to touch the ball; the rest of the team usually use their feet to kick the ball. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. The games are divided in two halves of 45 minutes each. If the score is tied at the end of the game, after the 90 minutes played, either a draw is declared or the game goes intoextra time and/or penalty shootout, depending on the format of the competition.

The Legends

Randy Couture...Chuck Liddell...Two legendary names in the sport. They were the first coaches of the reality show Ultimate Fighter; they're two of the oldest men in the sport; they're two of the best men in the sport. Every other fighter in the league at some point in time I'm sure has wanted to fight one or both of these men. In the case of UFC 52...they fought each other. It was one of the most epic fights of the year because it was the first time that these two had come face to face in the ring. These two would go on to do another two fights against each other, Liddell won the first of the 3 fights but Couture came back in the third one which was the most important anyways because it was a title fight for the Light Heavyweight Belt. Since then, Liddell has continued fighting but Couture has retired, had a come back, and retired again.

The fight that started it all

April 9, 2005

It's the end of the first season of Ultimate Fighter (the show that started the "mainstream" version of UFC). It's down to the final two contestants in the light heavyweight division, Stephan Bonner and Forrest Griffin. Forrest was my pick for the win, but for the first part of the fight I was sorely disappointed in him. He was letting Stephan get the better of him, wearing him down, letting him bleed...not the Forrest I watched throughout the season. There was a hit to Forrest's nose by Stephan in the second round that almost stopped the fight but being the dedicated man that he is, Forrest wanted to continue and the referees let him. THAT'S when the fight really started. In the third and final round, it looked like the guys were starting to get tired. Forrest started the round with a few low kicks and small punches; Stephan retaliated with a few punches when the opportunity presented itself. It was a back and forth battle at that point where most people watching were saying it was Stephan's fight hands down. Finally, Stephan went to swing, but missed, and lost his balance just enough to give Forrest the edge. Forrest got him in a Thai clinch submission and in the end won the game. It was three 5 minute rounds of back and forth action where Stephan had the lead and then Forrest got a slight edge; Stephan would have that one punch that got him far ahead again. Forrest won by unanimous decision, got the contract and the prizes for winning the season but for being just a good of a fighter and making this fight the number 1 best fight of all time, Dana White (the owner of UFC) offered Stephan a contract as well. It's the fight that got me into UFC and if you haven't seen it...WATCH IT!