any other sport. Compared to basketball and football‚ soccer is an interesting sport in the way it is played‚ its popularity‚ and the exorbitant amount of money paid to players. The way that soccer is played is so different than basketball and football. The whole idea of these games is scoring on the other team. Soccer is played with 11 players on each team and each team wears a special sport dress (T- shirts‚ shorts‚ and socks). A soccer game is about 90 minutes long; the first half is 45 minutes
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Soccer is the most popular and universal sport to ever be played‚ which involves dedication‚ skill‚ psychical and mental ability. With a crazy history dating back to 2000 years ago‚ you would have to go all the way back in time to understand all the facts about it‚ and even with how much history it has‚ it continues to progress and get better. The sport is so popular that the organization “FIFA” recorded that 240 million people regularly play the sport. That is a lot more than people think but when
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exciting throughout the world is soccer. In South America and Europe‚ soccer is the most widely-popular sport and the fans are very supportive‚ but where and when was soccer created and what is its history? Back in China‚ around the second and third centuries B.C.‚ there is evidence that people played a sport where the object was to dribble and pass a leather ball and score by kicking it into a small net. Also‚ historians believe that a game that involved kicking a ball was played in Ancient Greek
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Where do you think the soccer ball came from? In South America Indians they would have to use light elastic size ball. Ruber was later‚ like in a thousand years later. Legends and reference say that it were human heads‚ stitch up clothes‚ animal or human skulls‚ and pig or cow bladder. (Soccer Ball World History) Chinese play “tsu-chu” which is animal skin made ball. Ancient Rome and Greeks carry and kick the ball around. But yet in the Medieval times they kick the skulls it was one village versus
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Perception comes in many forms‚ identities‚ and cultures. The real problems arise when people are forced to seek similarities through the difference. My first impression of the freshmen soccer players during my sophomore year was just awful. They were just some punk kids coming up from the middle school to us. “They never really knew how to play‚” we convinced ourselves. It seemed everyone was so much happier when we were the new kids on the field instead of those silly children. As soon as they
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have heavily influenced my life are football and soccer. Although‚ there are many similarities‚ there are also many differences between the two sports. Each sport as a season that it shines during. Soccer and football are both played during the fall. Tough sports require protection‚ hard work‚ persistence‚ and a competitive drive. Every sport requires something to compete over and a way of scoring. Football has an oval shaped ball that gets thrown. Soccer has a circular ball that is not allowed to be
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How To Play Soccer? Soccer is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. According to FIFA which is the international foundation of football association‚ soccer is played by two hundred and fifty million players in over two hundred countries‚ making it the world’s most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by using any part of the body besides the arms and hands to
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GREATEST SOCCER PLAYER I remember that night; I was ten years old watching Jason Roberts score the winning goal in the state championship game‚ and right‚ then I knew I wanted to be a professional soccer player. I was in blue jeans‚ slippers‚ and a t-shirt‚ sitting on the bleachers kicking my feet back and forth in total excitement. All I heard was “ooooh’s” and “aaaah’s” from the spectators cheering there team on. I looked up at my mother and said “Mom‚ I am going to be the greatest soccer player”
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My name is Kyle ‚ and my life began in November of 1999. During that time‚ we were first moving to Sacramento from where I was originally from‚ San Ramon. Things were hectic and I wasn’t able to fully take in everything that was going on‚ being 5 years old. On our drive up to Sacramento‚ I distinctly remember our car getting hit face on by a book. The book was probably just thrown onto the freeway by a few delinquents‚ but it had symbolic meaning as I look back at it now. Coming to Sacramento brought
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Soccer is a sport that involves many different skills‚ like running‚ kicking‚ agility‚ coordination‚ and teamwork. Because of this‚ it’s no surprise that soccer is one of the oldest and most popular sports the world plays today. Not only has soccer evolved as people have‚ but it has brought both players and fans from almost every country together. Due to the fact that soccer uses many skills humans naturally have‚ almost every past culture is likely to have played their own version of soccer. Despite
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