You Have to Get Back Up on That Horse

by Matt OConnor
(Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA)

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Last year my high school soccer team lost in our District Tournament in Overtime by penalty kicks and I am one of the players who missed an attempt to kick. It was tied evenly up until me and I missed but luckily the other team also missed right after I went.

Then we made our next 2 kicks and so did they, but then we missed and we lost. My point though, is that this year my coach told me that if we go to O/T again in Districts this year, he wants me to do PK's again and I asked him why, when I missed last year and he said "Because this is a brand new year and I have Faith in you. You must also have Faith in yourself."