Who am I

Hi all, my name is Ryan Choi. I am from Seoul, Korea and 18years old. This is my first year in Cheshire Academy and I am a senior. I live in Motter basement, rooming with Stefano. I play soccer as centre defender. We have our first home game this Saturday day night on turf at 6pm against Wooster. It will be a great game.

I grew up in England and Korea therefore I was having easy access to soccer ball. All of my friends were playing soccer and soccer ball was our favourite toy, even I was bad at soccer when I was young. Everyday I went to playground with my friends and passing or dribbling the ball around slides and swings until my mum comes back from work and finds me. I was doing that everyday until I started skating and dreaming to be national team short-track skater. I started playing soccer again after I quit skating because of my ankle surgery. As a recovery I started playing for club soccer teams. I started playing soccer playing as winger, but when I came to highschool, Brewster Academy, I changed my position to defender. Right now I prefer playing as defender and I thank my old coach that he switched me to a defender.

I was born in Korea but grew up in England and Korea. It is quite unique to have back ground like this. My mum was working for British government so I was living in London, Notting hill. It is exact place where famous romance movie Notting Hill was shot. We do not live there anymore but Notting Hill was a place I started building myself. Every morning my mum and I go for a walk around the park. We stop by famous bakery in our town "Tom's bakery" and pick up croassant sandwich and walk back to our house. No matter of the weather, we went out every morning. It is the moment I really miss.

When I was 6 years old I started skating. Korea is huge country for speed skating therefore it was easy to me to get access to skating. I started with speed skating and changed to short-track. I admire national team skaters and always wanted to be like them. Coach said I was talented. I had 8 hours of practice everyday but I truly loved being on ice. I was being ranked as top prospect and potential national team skater in the future. Unfortunately accident happened during race, my ankle broke. I went through surgery and recovery. That was the time I moved to London and started playing soccer.

I think my childhood build my everything. All of my actions can be explained from the past memory. Soccer, London and skating took huge part of me and making my personal. Those three factors are very important to me.