Football is a stop-start game with frequent pauses between each play. Soccer is a more fluid sport, an aspect that appeals to many fans and players. Soccer players don't need the physical strength of football players. Athleticism and fitness are important, but you don't need to be physically imposing to play soccer. Some of the world's top players, such as Lionel Messi, rely purely on skill and creativity rather than strength and stature.
This makes soccer a more inclusive sport than football, for men and women. If you dream of being an Olympic athlete, football is not the sport for you. Though football was featured in the Summer Olympics as a demonstration event, the International Olympic Committee has yet to accept football as an Olympic sport. Soccer has been a regular feature of the Olympics since Soccer has a truly global reach; football is largely contained within North America.
Soccer is like an international language that crosses cultural barriers, allowing you to share your love for the game with other fans throughout the world.
In every country, a league. And within those leagues, sometimes several divisions the Estonian third division, as you can see from the video, is still taken very seriously by some. And thousands of amateur competitions. Soccer is played at every skill level, age and gender yep, both of them. In every country on Earth. That is scale. Professional soccer players are in fantastic shape, thanks to a game which lasts for 90 minutes and sometimes two hours without any timeouts.
But it's also the range of fitness they have to display: cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, strength, flexibility, speed. While fitness priorities can change from position to position, realistically you need to have them all. It's hard not to marvel at the athleticism of an athlete who needs to be able to run for two hours, wrestle an opponent at a corner and master the bicycle kick week in, week out. This is a double-edged sword, of course.
For every colorful celebration of fandom or national pride, there is often an ugly corollary which manifests through crowd violence. But passion produces excitement and color, first and foremost.
Soccer fans care more than fans of any other sport, which produces wonderfully intense live experiences. In pretty much any other sport, the fans can be intense, but no one's going home too devastated if their team loses.
Some contact sports exact a ridiculous physical toll on their participants, both by the roughness of the play and the culture of playing through injury. While some yahoos may argue those sports are therefore superior, it's a shame that we can only enjoy some athletes at their peak for such a short time before injury dulls their abilities.
Meanwhile, some soccer stars don't reach their peak until their 30s and can continue playing at the top level well beyond that. And at the amateur level, you can continue playing the game you love well into your twilight years.
Superficial, I know, but there's little denying that David Beckham and Alex Morgan wouldn't have made many magazine covers if they were professional boxers, taking shots to their tremendous cheekbones on a regular basis. Moreover, soccer players develop more attractive physiques than most other sports because of the need for well-rounded fitness, while the likes of Prince Fielder are able to stack on the pounds because they don't need to be trim to do what they do.
Join Newsletter. Different abilities are needed for each of the different positions on the field, so everyone has the chance to make the most of what they are best at. While soccer is a contact sport, it is not a collision sport. Anyone who can run and kick a ball can play soccer, but for kids who wish to improve, there are always more skills, moves, tricks and strategies to learn and develop in order to continually improve their game.
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