Soccer or Ballet or Both

Often, sports journalists use metaphors to describe athletes or sports. Sometimes, athletes are described as warriors; competition is equated to war. Other times athletes are graceful. Perhaps an athlete is a ballet dancer or a magician.

When I describe my soccer playing daughter as a ballet dancer, I am not using any literary device. On the field, she dances.

 

first-youth-soccer-game - Images by bryan farley

She is six. This is her first year; these photos are from her first youth soccer game. She has already danced for two years, so I understand that she would dance instead of run towards the ball.

At least she enjoyed herself.