My Sports Hobby That Increases My Agility Is Football⚽

Back in those days in high school, I loved sports of all kinds. The Olympics sporting displays on Tvs were my favourite, though at that time where I lived didn't care much about electricity, so most times when there were no funds to fuel our electric generator, we missed out on that day's gameplay. Everytime Nigeria qualifies for the World Cup, my concentration is set at every single update on which team they will be playing against. Upon all this interest, I have never in my secondary school days been selected among the best players to represent my class football team.

They saw me as small and fragile and a guy with no tackling skills. Street football had strengthened the bone of my mate then, and every time they would be selected for a football competition, I remained close to the sideline, spectating with admiration. At some point, I began to lose interest in football and concentrated on reading books, but sooner I found the need to exercise myself and connect with people through the sport.

I am not a good fan of soccer, as I may not be able to quote accurately the names of some football player except the very popular ones. Rice was trending some days ago, and now I am acquainted with the name. For the soccer gameplay, rules and every other thing, I am very acquainted with it.

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Why I love Football

One reason why I love football is the competitive spirit, the table is set and different teams struggle to climb to the top, the hierarchical displacement and the stages. The stage that shows you were most committed is when you reached the finals (quarter, semi and the final), the fun in seeing a big team losing to a small team and vice versa, and the moment when a star player gets injured and is out of the match resulting in fans fear of losing, which may turn out to be a win; in some cases this reduces the team strength and makes the team lose.

I could remember some years back when I was into sports betting; it took me hours to make a prediction, checking the head-to-heads, the team on form, the players that were out of the match, the possible correct score, the team's weak point, very recent matches, the stadium where they were playing and most times during the match, their possession.

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Street Football Vibes

So this very day, after almost a year ago, i decide to join my church youth for a sporting activities tagged breakfast and sport and collectively with another guy I contributed to get a ball which cost N2000, we created a team but this time the number of our players was not like the standard football team players; they were not up to eleven, and we formed a team.

Street football is a place where we learn the rudiments, and you have to improvise the facilities not on the list. Unlike the field, @kouba01 took a picture of the trapped bird that has a net above and beside it to keep the ball in close range for the kids.

Here we play on open spaces, and the ball flies in the air like arrows. Another energy is lavished while running to pick it up. With multiple jersey colours, any opposition team may vouch to pull off their shirts for easy recognition; a truck tier becomes our goalpost/goal-aiming area, and, very funny enough, there is no goalkeeper, only defenders. The main field was occupied already since all Saturdays are for sport.

In the end, our goal, which was this sporting activity, feeling the fun, and connecting with others, was achieved.

I would love @dwings, @oswaldocuarta and @samminator to join in this contest