Jake M. Fall DWA
Authors Note: In This piece of writing I wrote a personal narrative, it is about a trip to Kansas City for a memorable soccer tournament I played in
Envision yourself climbing out of a car and looking at a resemblance of some of the best soccer fields in the world. Then even better you get to play on those fields against some of the best teams in the Region. My trip with my soccer team to Kansas was one of the most exciting and enjoyable trips I ever been one.
My trip started with a long tiring nine hour car drive. Most of the trip I slept, but for the time I was awake Me and Kevin would draw facial expression on our friend Daniel, and watch movies. Once we entered Kansas City, Kansas I started to get a feel for what Kansas City was like lots of barbeque restaurants, big atmosphere, and lots of shopping and dining places. Around every corner of Kansas City there was always something interesting to see.
Just as I was getting a feel for Kansas I saw what looked like soccer fields from heaven. We drove the car into the complex and stepped out in amazement. Just after we got out of the car Kevin’s dad told us that this place was where we were going play our tournament. When I heard this I almost fainted, all of the 20 fields had Astroturf, lights in case if you play under the lights, and a scoreboard. Our parents told me, Kevin, and Daniel that we could go explore the complex. The first thing I wanted to check out was the fields when I walked out on to them I was speechless. I couldn’t believe it they had some much stuff here like cafes, clubhouses, and huge tents I knew this was going to be a great tourney.
After we experienced the soccer fields from heaven we headed back to our hotel to meet up with the team. Once we arrived at the hotel we had a meeting with our coach about our game times, we found that we had 3 games in 3 days and if won all three we make it to the finals. After the meeting was over my mom and I headed to our room because it was getting late and we were burnt out from the car ride. I didn’t go to sleep for the first 30 minutes because I decided to lay in my bed and think of tomorrow’s game.
Our first game was the next day early in the morning, we played a team from Missouri and we knew it was going to be a tough game. We jumped ahead right away in the first half leading 2-0, then in the second I scored my first memorable goal on that lead us to a 5-0 win. Kevin and I both thought that if all the teams were like this we would easily win the tournament, but we didn’t know this team from Kentucky was going to bring lots of intensity when we played them tomorrow. The next day we had another early game and this time we played a team from Kentucky. We put pressure on them right away and at the end of the half it was 2-1 we were up. The game was 2-1 for a long time in the second half, but then they scored 2 quick goals and their crowed erupted. It was 3-2 for the last 15 minutes in the game and we lost a heartbreaker 3-2.
The next morning we had one more game and then we had to head on home. We played a team from Chicago and they beat us easily 3-1 but I scored my second goal of tournament. Even though we lost two games one being a heart breaker Kevin and I both thought we had accomplished a lot to even qualify for this high level tournament. When we were leaving the complex I looked back at fields out of the car window and I knew that my trip to Kansas had been one thrilling and entertaining trip I have ever been on in my life.
