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Barry Reid
My soccer playing career began at the innocent age of ten. My mother suggested signing me up to play in the local soccer league. She told me that she thought I would have the perfect build to play ...view moreMy soccer playing career began at the innocent age of ten. My mother suggested signing me up to play in the local soccer league. She told me that she thought I would have the perfect build to play the sport if I lost some weight. I had already been swimming on my neighborhood swim team during the summer, but swimming didn’t happen in the fall. Soccer did, though. I had been very overweight at the beginning of the summer swimming season, but I had gone on a diet and lost a lot of weight during the season. Since I wanted to lose more weight I took my mom up on her offer. I didn’t know anything about soccer, Pele`, or the World Cup. I just knew that I liked kicking a ball around. Since my only experience with soccer had been when I had kicked a soccer ball around just for fun, my mom signed me up for the lowest level of soccer for my age group.view less