Soccer Media Coverage

For the longest time, the United States of America have viewed soccer to be a 2nd class sport and not giving it the same attention as sports like football and baseball. Though, as the years have passed soccer has won over the hearts of the United States. Today the World Cup is the most popular in the United States than it has ever been, however, soccer has been receiving criticism because people believe the it is receiving media coverage that is doesn’t deserve. Soccer does deserve the media coverage that it’s getting because soccer teaches teamwork skills, requires more technique, and creates better connections between the countries who play, not to mention that soccer has a lower risk of serious injury.
“Practice makes Perfect” Soccer is
The article “What Video Games Have to Teach Us”, the author James Paul Gee explains how “Good games operate at the outer and growing edge of a player’s competence, remaining challenging, but do-able…Since games are often challenging, but do-able, they are often also pleasingly frustrating, which is a very
Concussions are one of the leading injuries in football players and just recently it was discovered that all those concussions are causing more than just a headache. However, to make matters worse the concussion problem is not just effecting professional players, but is effecting young athletes. According to the head health management system 47% of all sport concussions are from football. These concussions aren’t just causing a few days with headaches, but are resulting in permanent brain damage. 76.8 out of 100,000 athletes that have played football have gotten concussions, however only 33 out of 100,000 athletes that have played women’s soccer have gotten concussions and only 19 out of 100,000 athletes that have played men’s soccer. The data shows that when compared to the leading American sport football, soccer has a lower risk. The article “The Overprotected Kid” the author Hanna Rosin refers to a landscape architect and children’s advocate by explaining that “She wanted to encourage a “free and permissive atmosphere” with as little adult supervision as possible. The idea was that kids should face what to seem like “really dangerous risks” and then conquer them alone. That, she said, is what builds self-confidence and courage” (2). Rosin explains that risk is good and essential to growth and devolvement, in soccer risk still exist, though the risks of injuries such as concussions