Football vs Soccer
Football is a popular sport in the United States, while soccer is more popular around the World. Soccer and football have many similarities between each other. They both have leagues that are played outdoors like the National Football League and Major League Soccer. The teams consist of eleven players on the field at a time. In order to score in each of the sports, the team has to score on the opponent’s goal line. Football and soccer have indoor leagues where they play indoors all year long. Both sports have positions in the game that players need to play.
The sports are very different in many ways. The World Cup is the biggest soccer tournament unlike football which does not have a world wide tournament. Ronaldo, a Brazilian soccer star has been given the title, man of the tournament three times and even in 1998, when his team lost the title to France, he was given the title. The world has seen soccer players like Meradona and others, but Pele to date is considered unmatchable in this field. It was the 2002 World Cup, when a German goal keep, Oliver Kahn, won the title of the most valuable player of the World Cup. Soccer also has the national star, which has been given to the University of North Carolina because it has won sixteen national soccer tournaments in women’s soccer since 1982, when the first Soccer Cup for women was held. Walter Camp is the “Father of American Football,” and Willie Thrower, who played for the Bears in 1953, was the first African-American quarterback in the league. Football has a different point system than soccer. The point system is: touchdown- six points, extra point conversion- one point, two-point conversion-two points, field goal- three points, and safety- two points. In soccer each goal is only worth one point. William “Pudge” Heffelfinger was paid $500 to play football for the Allegheny Athletic Association against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club in 1892 making him the first professional football player. A football field is 120
The sports are very different in many ways. The World Cup is the biggest soccer tournament unlike football which does not have a world wide tournament. Ronaldo, a Brazilian soccer star has been given the title, man of the tournament three times and even in 1998, when his team lost the title to France, he was given the title. The world has seen soccer players like Meradona and others, but Pele to date is considered unmatchable in this field. It was the 2002 World Cup, when a German goal keep, Oliver Kahn, won the title of the most valuable player of the World Cup. Soccer also has the national star, which has been given to the University of North Carolina because it has won sixteen national soccer tournaments in women’s soccer since 1982, when the first Soccer Cup for women was held. Walter Camp is the “Father of American Football,” and Willie Thrower, who played for the Bears in 1953, was the first African-American quarterback in the league. Football has a different point system than soccer. The point system is: touchdown- six points, extra point conversion- one point, two-point conversion-two points, field goal- three points, and safety- two points. In soccer each goal is only worth one point. William “Pudge” Heffelfinger was paid $500 to play football for the Allegheny Athletic Association against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club in 1892 making him the first professional football player. A football field is 120