Football

Football is a sport, a game that can join people from all around the world, regardless of races , gender, or age. The passion, the spirit is unimaginable. It is a game which needs skill, cooperation, and of course passion. "Goal...!!!" That's the word that makes the football fans crazy. A football game is 90-minute long. Some people think that it is boring to see twenty-two persons running for a ball. But for me, those people are running after their dreams, trying so hard to achieve them. They are trying to score goals, and defend their goal from the opponent. Goal in other word is "aim". So, in my opinion, a football game is as if a life. In our lives, we have to put in more efforts to make dreams come true, and we have to work hard to prevent others from crashing our dreams. Both team are doing their best to achieve their goals. The opponent's defenders are like any other obstacles that can make all your effort to achieve your goal in vain and the opponent's goalkeeper will be the final stage you have to overcome to achieve your goal. Team players are partners, or any other people in this world that can help you to get what you long for. They will have to help each other in order to reach their final destination. Carelessness of any of the players will put the whole team's fragile dreams in jeopardy. In a football game, there will be joy and disappointment, laughters and tears, celebration and fights, glory and shattered dreams. The game means so much for the players as well as all the football buffs. Referee acts like a judge, making sure that all players are playing in a friendly and correct manner. Anyway, just like in reality life, corruption sometimes happens in the realm of football.

My favourite football team is Manchester United, which is called MU in abbreviation. MU emerges champion in EPL and also UEFA Champion League this season. They played well as a team in UEFA Champion League, overcoming all the other skillful and prestigious football club like AS Roma and Barcelona all the way into the final where they beat Chelsea. The players of MU are Wayne Rooney, Saha, Tevez (striker), Ryan Giggs, Christiano Ronaldo, Michael Carrick, Nani, Park Ji Sung, Paul Scholes, Darren Fletcher, Owen Hargreaves, Anderson (Midfielder), Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Silvestre, Gary Neville, Wes Brown, Patrice Evra, John Oshea (Defender) , Edwin Van Der Sar, Tomasz Kuszczak (Goalkeeper) and other players on bench. Sir Alex Ferguson is MU's coach and under his leadership, Manchester United had won countless trophies.

Beside MU, I support England team. David Beckham is the one I admire. He is very skillful and he was the captain of England team. He is well-known for his crossing, corner kicks, and free kicks. He even scored a goal from half-field long distance. He can control the ball perfectly and his ball always curved right into the net. In FIFA 2002 Qualifying Rounds, England will have to get at least a draw to qualify for FIFA 2002. England was down by one goal to nil. Just before the game ended, David Beckham scored a superb free kick against Greece in the dying minute. That crucial goal was just enough to bring England to Japan and Korea.