An original speech, written by our student Harshil Katiyar.

Harshil is 10 years old young writer and orator from Jaipur. He loves music, performance, and football. We are proud to have him as a student Public Speaking Through Applied Storytelling & Theatre Program in Jaipur under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Harshil for this exemplary true self-expression.

Football

Can you imagine playing in a field where there are thousands of people cheering all around you? The players are divided into two teams. Both teams have equal goals but then you score a goal and your team wins the game! Yayayyaay. That’s the “on top of the world moment”. The stadium bursts with cheers and clapping! Do you know this game? This game is called football.

Hello/Namaste everyone. I am Harshil, an avid lover of the game of football. I feel football is one of the best games ever because it’s exciting, enthralling, and educative.

Football is one of the most popular games and is loved by people all over the world. In football, two teams try to score a goal with a ball on each other’s goalpost, the team that scores the most goals at the end of the time wins the game. It can be played by all ages. The joy of scoring a goal while avoiding the goalkeeper makes it exciting and fun.

Football is a game where you are engrossed to your fullest. If you miss a chance or your attention goes here and there you put your team in the losing position. For example, when someone tries to score a goal but suddenly someone snatches the ball from the player and passes it to someone else and the ball keeps going back and forth in the WHOLE field. We should always focus that where the ball will go and how to get the ball. It is not good to make a lot of jokes and distract the other players. This makes it enthralling and even more exciting.

Football is all about running and passing the ball to other players to help the team to win the game. It also keeps you fit and healthy and helps build teamwork. It teaches its players about the importance of teamwork, self-discipline, and the attitude of never giving up. For Example- Whenever we lose a game we don’t blame or yell at each other. Rather we focus on identifying the mistakes, more practice, and more excellence in our game.

To conclude, I would like to reaffirm again, that football is the best game ever because it is exciting, enthralling, and educative. It makes the players disciplined and brings consistency. It teaches the fundamental principle of life that man cannot exist alone, you need a team in every sphere of life. The different scenarios of the game make it entertaining and keep the fun meter up. It’s exciting also because you never know what’s going to happen and it’s always a surprise. Practice the game daily to descend new tricks and techniques because you will start reflecting once you are regular. Hence don’t wait for a single moment, go hit the playground, cheer your team and play the best game in the world called “FOOTBALL”.  In the end, I would like to leave you all with a quote by one of the most famous American football coaches of all time, Vince Lombardi, “Football is like life. It requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication, and respect for authority.”

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