Soccer getting popular!
by: Amy Letaro
INTRO
GOAL!!! Screeches the magenta purple jersey team. This ball barely slipped of the rattling fingers of the opposite team's goalie.
Right under these words there is a picture of the filed with all the lengths\/
The Metal Wall
The goalie is the only person on the field who can use their hands. Also the goalie can hold the ball and run around with it anywhere in the goalie box. The goalie box {also known as the penalty box} is 44 by 18 yrd large.
The goalie must wear special goalie gloves that protects the goalies hands and also helps the goalie grip that ball.
Now I've been telling you all about what the goalie can do and I haven't been telling you about what the goalie is.
A goalie is the person on the filed who guards the goal. The goalie is supposed to block the ball as best as they can. If the goalie fails to block the ball, the other team gets one point. Also a penalty kick is worth one point. {if you get it in the goal} If the ball gets kicked out of bounds, the last team that touches the ball dosent get to kick. Also if the ball gets kicked into the goal then the team who didn't score gets to do this thing called a goal kick. Only 2 goalies are on the filed at a time. 1 goalie for each team.
Just like panthers and cheetahs, soccer players run like the wind to catch up to the soccer ball. In this sport, people can use their feet only. No hands. That is what makes the sport so unique.
Soccer Now And Then
Before the game starts, the coach picks two people to be team captains. The team captains are different every time. The team captains go to the ref and the home team picks either heads or tails. If your team gets it right you start out with the ball. If your team gets it wrong you get to pick which side that you want to defend. After that the team captains go and tell the whole team if they got the ball and what side they are defending. Both teams tell them that.
Look At That Ball
In soccer you must follow the safety rules. The safety rules are, You must wear shinguards, You have to take off all jewelry, like earrings,necklaces and bracelets. Now the rule that I'm about to tell you is not a rule that is one that you absolutely must follow. You should wear cleats. If you wear glasses I highly recommend for you to have a strap to keep them on and be super careful. Before you get too worked up about soccer, you have to ask your parents if you are allowed to play. Duh.Lot's of people have highly approved to soccer. Another rule about safety by the way is that the goalie should probably wear special goalie gloves. If you would like to try out soccer still be aware of the protection that you must wear and just as a heads up you can not pick the team jersey color but you can pick the number that you would like to be! If you love what I have told you go out and practice then ask your parents if you can sign up for winter, spring, summer, fall play soccer!!