Teamwork Makes the DreamWork

“Today we're going to be practicing taking a disc from one place to another place he asked us what is that.”

My teamś coach, Kobe, told us that without teamwork there's no team.”

After he said that I felt like we wanted to be a team but we didn't know how to be a team. We were counting on Kobe to teach us how to work as a team.

We split the teams up into two offense versus defense, Kobe threw the ¨discs in the middle and we started playing.¨ Alex cut left and I filled a diss to Alex then he threw it to Phoenix. We were halfway down the field then Kobe said, ¨throw it down the field Amadou then I ran as fast as I could and I felt the green and black turf in between my cleats I felt the breeze go past me as I caught the disc in the air,¨

“Let's try it with no teamwork, and see how that works,” Kobe said.

Then we started it again started with the disc and all Kobe said, “Will someone run all the way down the field .” Then we tried it with teamwork again, so I started with the disc again then I threw it at Phoenix and he threw it back to me. The Ethan had the disc.

Kobe said, ¨Sit down and tell me what were the pros and cons of the practice today.”

Phoenix replied with, “The pros were that we worked as a team and communicated with each other.”

The cons were, we weren’t working together as a team and our communication was not organized.

I finally understood what Kobe was trying to say he was trying to say that if we don't put our head together and work as a team we will never win a game.  when he told us to Try it without teamwork it was an example of how we would play if we don't work together Show us that we have to work together.

Two weeks ago, after school, at 44th and Haverford I had soccer practice. The coach told us we have a game tomorrow and we need to practice controlling the ball, passing it to our teammates,  and getting open. he advised us to gather into small groups where we would pass the ball. There was one defender in each of the group where they were supposed to block the ball, with this drill we improved in our communication skills as a team. There were a couple times we lost the ball, the coach stopped us after five minutes asking why did you lose the ball.

Ash replied “Because we weren't talking to each other and using all the space we have as a team,” Coach made us try it again.

I passed the ball to Ash and then he passes it back and we kept this up for about 5 minutes without the defender getting. The coach pointed out the difference after we played and he congratulated me, making me happy.

I learned that without working as a team and communication we will never learn to keep the ball in our possession. we have to talk because if someone behind Ash trying to get the ball I can tell Ash to pass the ball and as a team, we will learn to work together.