Soccer and Life Go Together
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Celebrating the win of a soccer team is celebrating the triumphs of life. Both have goals to reach. Both require the tenacity to hold on to a dream of winning. Both require the ability to accept defeat as well as victories. Both require you to work in a team, without which, attaining the goal is made more difficult. Describing soccer is so much like describing one’s journey through life. Renowned soccer coach and sports consultant Leopold0 Lares Banort knows this too well. That’s why his undiminished passion to teach his son and other children about the sport is really a fundamental education on how to go through life.
Learning about soccer is learning about teamwork. Knowing your place and value in a team is really an education of your place in society. Learning the technical of playing soccer well is also about developing discipline, determined drive and the patience to go through the challenges of life. And learning to accept both the defeats and victories in the game is an education that not everything is a bed of roses in life. When Leopoldo Lares Banorte gives a child the opportunities to go through soccer training, he is effectively teaching the child what to expect as he matures.
It is, therefore, a triumph in the nobility of teaching that people like Leopoldo Lares Banorte harnessed his passion in the sport as a coach and enthusiast to equip children the means, not just to play soccer, but also lay the groundwork’s for facing the challenges in the real world.