My favorite sport is football. Not only do i like and enjoy football, i love it. My relationship with football is intimate.
My history with football started when i was young. I used to pray in school team. Everybody wanted me in their team because i was a top scorer. Am very aggressive and have been always a forward prayer. Am not strong in the body but very swift. i wont give a powerful short but i would literally pass my tiny self through strong and huge bodies of defender and sneak the ball into the net together with myself.
I stopped praying football when our school went for district inter school competition and i was given the center forward position in the main squad. our first opponent team was the strongest. We rarely touched the ball, the ball seemed to be stuck and lost between their huge legs. I could never reach it. My whole body size was just the size one leg of the opponent players. I felt like a toddler before them. I managed to touch the ball twice in 45 minutes before i was substituted in the second half. I have never felt so intimidated like that day. It was my final year in secondary school, and i felt like that match has drown all reputation i had about being a talented football player in my village. Before that match, i thought that one day, i would play in world cup, but i realized that it was a pipe dream. “if a team in my district can be such intimidating, what about teams from another country?”. I remembered the story of Israelite in the bible which my dad used to narrate. That they went to spy a land, and they said that they were like grasshoppers before the inhabitants of the land, and so they were in their sight. I felt like a grasshopper before giants that day.
However i never stopped loving football. But I enjoy it the most when my teams are winning. Among my teams that i support is my national team. My favorite team is Brazil.
Football stirs a lot of emotions in people. People flood in the stadium to watch their favorite team. People cry when their team looses. They go through emotional turmoil when their team losses.
I would reschedule important assignments just to watch my favorite team play. I would jump onto the table and dance with joy when they score. I would speak about their win the next day to whoever that can give me their ears. I have seen my team win and it literally give me a lot of joy and satisfaction. My team winning is enough for me to have a smile for the next one month and if they win a tournament, i will always feel the sense of entitlement. Am always attached to my national team with mind, body and soul. When they are praying, everything comes to stand still. Thanks God am not a doctor or security officers because am not sure i can be able to respond to emergency calls at that moment:;
When they loose, It is a great pain to me. It will cause me to lack sleep, loose appetite and loose interest with the whole tournament. If it is world cup and they loose at group stage, that is the end of world cup for me.
But am not alone. At least i have never attempted to commit suicide or cause bodily harm to somebody else or myself because of football, like the way i have seen with some people. Sometimes, we funs of football we go overboard, we have soo much emotional attachment with it until we can do dangerous things like throwing stones in the field or crashing our television screens when our team looses. We can be violent to our wives when they provoke us as a way of displacing our disappointments. But at least i have never gone to such extents, i usually become calm after loosing, go to my room and feel sorry for myself. MY it really really hurt to loose a game as a team. I have seen football funs crying uncontrollably, mourning as if they are bereaved of their loved ones when their team looses.
I don’t have specific reason for loving football, just the way i cannot explain why i love my girlfriend. But i love football like no other game in the world





