Soccer is constant improvisation. Every time the ball moves, it creates a new reality that forces players to instantly adjust position and decide their next action. Athletes are the world's best improvisers, responding to dozens or hundreds of new situations every match.
I like to tell soccer players, every time the ball moves on the field, that's your new reality that you're responding to. You're changing your position, you're deciding what you're going to do. That's just like an improvisation where every new idea creates a new reality. In sports, every time the ball moves, it creates a new reality and a new reality that you have to respond to. So athletes in essence are the best improvisers in the world. Because they are having to constantly respond to a new reality that is happening dozens, if not hundreds of times every time they play.
