A Biography

Soccer is not just my passion, but I also loved the sleek skills on the field with the football. Players with dribbling ability, or shooting ability, just caught my attention.



I want to talk about my favourite player, Lionel Messi. He is truly one of the world football's global superstars. Having made his Argentina debut against Hungary in August 2005, Messi has gone on to make 43 appearances and score 12 goals for his country.

Lionel Messi began his career at FC Barcelona in 2000/2001 season, but failed to make a league appearance during his first 2 years at the club. He made 22 league appearances and scoring 6 goals for Barcelona 'B' Team in 2003/2004. He then join back the first team of Barcelona in 2004/2005 and has since made an impact to the club.

At just 22 years of age, he has a great record of 12 competition wins to his name. He also earned recognition from the footballing community for his achievements such as World Player of the Year runner-up for 2 occasions, European Footballer of the Year runner-up.

At the recent Ballon d'Or award, one of the biggest award in football world, Messi has take home the winner of the award. Having won most of the awards this year, he is truly one of the greatest footballer in the current generation. His next target was to win the World Cup for his country.



In the recent article in the Newspaper, he mentioned that with determination and hard work, effort will be paid off. His humble personality helped him in gaining wisdom and respect. Even his lifestyle, as compare with other footballers, he prefers to stay home with his family where other footballers would prefer late night partying and boozing.

Soccer

The history of soccer goes way back into the mid 19th century. It has different various way of playing soccer at that point of time. Till the Football Association took charge in 1863.

The rules of the game, including offside & tackling rules, have changed over the years. The FIFA took charge in 1904 and have since then, been in charge of all disciplinary and game conducts.

My Personal Development Goal was to dribble and score in a 2-a-side match against my friends. Scoring is the most basic rule in soccer. You score by kicking the ball into the opponent's net.



Dribbling is one of the most difficult ball skills to master and one of the most useful attacking moves. In typical game play, players attempt to propel the ball toward their opponents' goal through individual control of the ball, such as by dribbling (running with the ball close to their feet). For e.g, in the below picture, shows a footballer dribbling with the ball.



Dribbling creates space in tight situations where the dribbler is marked (closely guarded by a defender), and the dribbler can either score or create scoring chances after a successful dribble.

However, dribbling, if poorly mastered and used, may result in the loss of possession either when the ball is intercepted or tackled by a defender.

The purpose of learning such skills, can provide favours to own team, be it in passing or scoring. For my goal, it would be like my idol, Lionel Messi, currently playing for club Barcelona in Spain, to dribble and score a goal.




Here's 2 videos on his dribbling skills.

My first introduction

Hi people. My name is Benson Kheng. I'm a student from NYP. I'm doing this blog is for my Personal Development Module.

Firstly this blog is created because of the SMART goal that I have chosen to accomplish within 9 weeks. My goal is to dribble and score a goal in a 2-a-side soccer match.

Why I choose soccer is because I love soccer ever since young. Though I didn't have much chances to play with other people, I only get to watch it. The likes of Roberto Baggio, Frank & Ronald De Boer, Beckham, Cantona, etc, were just the soccer players that somehow inspired me. Or I should say love this sports because of them.


My plan to achieve my smart goal is to learning dribbling skills & shooting techniques. I know there are videos that teaches us how to dribble. I not gonna post it here now. I will do it in the next post.

Just to end it off, I will find some interesting videos on soccer & post it here whenever I have the time to blog it.