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Memories play an essential role in our life. These are lessons, feelings, accidents in many fields as a sport, study, daily life.

Memories make you happy or sad when you remember them.

I have never forgotten a football match in high school. The best memory I will keep in my whole life that taught me never to give up. The greatest enemy is yourself. We must be better and better every day. Below is my story:

In June 2014,

I was a defender in my high school's soccer team. That year, we had a crucial competition which included all of the football teams in my city. My team took one year for preparation about tactics, physical strength, football skills. Every week, the friendly match with the other high schools is a chance for us to gain more and more experience. At that time, The X-TEAM was the best team who won us 5-0, 6-0 in 2 times at two friendly matches. We were aware of them! 

When the competition began, we were excellent at reaching the semi-final match. We played that match at our city's stadium that was my dream. The opponent in that match was the X-TEAM. Before the day we played, we prepared carefully and were quite nervous. 

At 10:00 a.m, the game began under unbroken sunshine. I took the first step onto the field that the grass was soft. The referee allows the game to begin. In the first 15 minutes, the X-TEAM side had that possession that is difficult in taking the ball from them. In the 18th minute, Their striker had the ball at the midfield. Then he ran too close to the penalty area and scored the first goal after shooting the ball on the corner of the net. We were depressed at that time. Then, the first half was over.

In the second half, our coach on the pitch always shouted:" Never give up, boys!", we believe in ourselves. Their team began to underestimate us because all the two friendly matches they always won with big scores. I played as a defender on the left field. My responsibility was to focus against their attacker. I remembered ten times that I prevented their attempts to score in the second half. In the 70th minute, our striker scored the goal after heading the ball to the net. We seemed alive again, so the game was more exciting. The X-TEAM coach was so surprised about us as I could see his worrying face. Unfortunately, in the 88th minute, after attempts of the X-TEAM, they had finally scored to win the game in a similar way we had scored the second goal by heading the ball. Finally, the match which made us so exhausted is over. Although we lost the game, we had won ourselves. We hadn't been scared and never gave up. The X-TEAM would respect us after this game.

That is my memory I have never forgotten in my life, which taught me many things. So I have experience in my development.

What is your story? 

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