Mrs. Lynette
To begin with, soccer is becoming the sport of the youthful generation because it is easy to play. Soccer, unlike American football has less positions comprising of just eleven plays each team. The rules are simple and easy to grasp. Some of the crucial positions in soccer is the attacking midfielder, who has to get the ball and distribute it to strikers. He /she has also to bridge strikers with the defenders. However, team work plays major role in the success of the soccer game. Anyone can play soccer because its rules are very simple. One is punishable for playing roughly, handballing or for offsite attacks. Soccer ensures discipline is paramount in the game. Football has many positions and rules that make the game less likeable by young generations (Falla et al. 10-12). The game is also very physical and most successful players in football tend to be the most aggressive people in the society. That makes it loss support in today’s sporting.
Youth soccer leagues in US is a plus to soccer’s popularity. Today, nearly every state has a youth soccer league. More children play soccer than used to be before. Probably, the reason behind this could be the influx of kids from soccer playing countries through the immigration (Guest, 2015). And while soccer is considered less aggressive unlike football among kids, most American kids have found more fun in soccer that baseball (Falla et al. 10-12). The fruits of the increased youth in soccer has influenced more supporters to turn to soccer increasing its fun base and making America a promising future of soccer.
Probably, soccer is cheaper sport than baseball. First, its kits are just a rounded ball, boots, uniform and a soccer pitch at a basic level. Body fitness is important but one does not need to have huge physic. The most significant thing in soccer is being wit and trickery. Then you can chase the ball, control it, pass to a team mate and enjoy. Football is a bit expensive in terms of money and time. It uses an oval ball. That may take time to get used to playing, training kits are wanting and the pitch has many positions. Its manual is rather complex than soccer. In as much as one has to use their mind to play football, physic counts a lot (Pfister et al. 22). So this characteristic undermines people with less body physic to participate. Most people are worried when their kids engage in the game due to the aggressiveness that is involved in the play session marred with risks of getting advanced injuries than anyone would in soccer (Pfister et al. 22).
Soccer is a global business. Most soccer stars from the world of soccer play in European leagues. Probably, if data from US support to soccer teams in Europe is well analyzed, it appears that more Americans support English premier league something that could be attributed to language barrier to Bundes liga and Laliga and so on (Guest 11). Also considering that the most popular US soccer player, Tim Howard plays in England, Americans would not want to remain behind soccer business due to language barrier anymore and of late they are becoming more supportive to soccer teams in England and engaging in bet business as well while creating idols out of soccer out of likeability of individual players such as Rooney and so on. The American billionaires have invested their money in Premier league after realizing its potential for profitability unlike American football which is localized. American billionaires have purchased shares in clubs such as Manchester united, and Liverpool FC which has also created sense of ownership of the clubs by Americans triggering more popularity as well (Guest 11).
Soccer success among US women soccer team has been a changing point as well. More corporations and media houses has been motivated to push for success of soccer in America than before. For instance Walt Disney company; the owner of NBC and ESPN is investing so much to promote soccer in US among young stars. Its television channels air world cup in a rather interesting way than they do with football (Reck & Dick 23). Nowadays the channels show soccer leagues especially the English Premier League weekly and American funds are becoming obsessed with the league.
In conclusion, it is clear that soccer is the future sport of US. The reasons being that soccer is easy sport to play that involves team work and wit, it is inexpensive to get involved in soccer, American youth leagues are adding value to its popularity, huge corporations and media houses are promoting soccer aggressively while soccer is proving to be one of the most profitable sports since its popularity stretches all over the world. Generally, America is has huge interest in soccer today than before and its future in the game is bright. Probably, more people will support a soccer team if America starts major soccer league with international soccer stars as in Europe.
Work Cited
Falla, J., et al., (2015). Football, Professional. Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia, 361. 2015: 10-12.
Guest, A. M.. 21 Analyzing and reconciling models of youth development in American soccer. International Research in Science and Soccer II, 215. (2015):11.
Pfister, T., et al.,. The incidence of concussion in youth sports: a systematic review and meta-analysis. British journal of sports medicine, bjsports-2015. (2015):22.
Reck, G. G., & Dick, B. A. American Soccer: History, Culture, Class. McFarland. (2015):23-25.
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