In Koh Panyee, 1986, a group of boys wanted to create a soccer team not knowing where it was going to take them. These boys live on a floating village with not a lot of space. How could they make a soccer team? How could they make somewhere to play soccer? The boys from Panyee FC were terrific problem solvers. With teamwork and creativity, a legacy was born.

The boys had  no one to teach them how to play soccer, because no one had ever played the game on the floating village before, so they had to teach themselves. The boys  had to be each others coaches, because no one supported them. This shows that the boys must have had a very good friendship and had faith in each other. The boys had some knowledge on how to play through watching soccer on a small T.V, but that was not enough to become a soccer team . Even though the boys had no one to teach them how to play soccer, they still got so far and almost won a big tournament because they always had faith no matter what. They always found a way to fix their problems.

In order to play soccer with their limited space the boys put their heads together  and they came up with a great a great idea, to make a floating pitch. They made it out of old wood and rafts tied together, even thought it was uneven, had nails sticking out everywhere, and shaky, but they still played on it and had fun. The boys built the pitch all by themselves without any help. Not knowing how to build a pitch they still did it. Without any  grown up help, because no one had faith in them but they still did it and became an amazing soccer team because they alway believe in themselves.

There was a rainstorm when the panyee boys were playing in their big tourment at the semifinals, their shoes were beginning to fill up with water. So they took off their shoes, because  it was normal for them to playing on their bare feet and also had very good foot work from playing on their small pitch. And even the score, unfortunately last minute the other team

scored a goal and they lost the tournament. Even though the boys lost they were still proud of themselves for how far they had come with not knowing how to play then to becoming world champions, now that is amazing to me. The boys always find a way to solve their problems even in the worst of times.

In Conclusion to this essay Panyee FC really showed that you should never give up on your dreams, even if someone does not have faith in you,  keep on going if you fail that just means try a different way. Don’t listen to people who don’t have faith in you or don’t believe in you keep on  going. Follow your dreams, because if you don’t try you will never know what could of happened.