Gender Differences Between Football And Women's Soccer

In this class we have analyzed the social aspects of sports, taking a deeper look into only how things happen but why they happen in sports. We have learned several theories, concepts and/or terms that help explain why these things happen. In this paper, i will focus on the similarities i observed between Football and Women’s Soccer in the aspects of the demographics of players and fans, the interaction between both players and fans, and lastly the location and environment of these sporting events. Lastly, I will focus on the differences between these two sport by using, ideas we learned in this course such as male domination, male centered and male identification.
After analyzing aspects of sporting events, I realized while observing both events that Football and Women’s Soccer are very similar. The demographics of the players tend alike in this sense of the stronger, more built players to be the better players. These players also train a lot at high intensities, in the sense of running and weight training. Interactions between both Football players and Women’s Soccer players are both aggressive. Both sets of players have these savage like mindsets that the players on the opposing team is the enemy. These mindsets are practiced by both sports to instill the value of winning. Because both sports are played outside, they have a big fan base. Fans of both sports are loyal and committed to watching and being at all sporting events. Just like the players, the fans are just as aggressive if not more aggressive than the players. The savage like mentality transfers from the players to the fans, boosting the confidence of the players, thus enabling them to perform better. Lastly the environment of both sports Both Football and Women’s are sporting events that take place outside either on fields or open arenas. The obvious difference between Football and Women’s Soccer is gender which in society makes Women’s Soccer inferior to Football. Football is male dominated,