Two great sports
What would you think if someone ask you “what is the 2 greatest sport on the world”. That will be probably soccer and basketball right? The most popular 2 sports are basketball and soccer. To play soccer you have to have team with at least 11 members, field with two goals and one of your team members has to keep the goal. But if you want to play just as fun it’s not necessary to have 11 members. When you play in grass field you have to have specials shoes to play. There are different confederations around the world. According to http://en.wikipedia.org “Six regional confederations are associated with FIFA; these are: Asia: Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Africa: Confederation of African Football (CAF), Central/North America & Caribbean: Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF; also known as The Football Confederation), Europe: Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Oceania: Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and South America: Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol/Confederação Sul-americana de Futebol (South American Football Confederation; CONMEBOL)”To play basketball you have to have team with 5 members and few substitutes, field with 2 baskets on the both side and everybody plays offense and defense together. Basketball is indoor game. And also there is some associations too. According to http://en.wikipedia.org “Basketball at the Olympic Games, International Basketball Federation, National Basketball Association, Women's National Basketball Association, Continental Basketball Association (oldest league in the world), National Wheelchair Basketball Association” These two sports have different rules, play style and fans.
The rules are some them are similar but most of them are different. In soccer you cannot touch the ball with hands except goalkeeper. For small fouls it doesn’t count. If you foul on someone on purpose or for serious fouls you’ll get cards, which are red and yellow. If you get red card you will have to leave the game and your team will play with one player short. And for the yellow that’s warning, if you get it again you will leave the game. And there is chance to change the players for only 3 times. And you have enough time to try to goal. In basketball you can foul on somebody 5 times and technical foul (2 times), if you do that you’ll leave the game. But sub player will play instead of you. And kicking the ball accidently touched with the foot, the ball will be on other side, so you don’t want to do that. You have to finish your offensive play within 24 seconds; otherwise other team will get the ball.
Playing ball with feet is not so easy, handling and passing is really hard. You have to practice for a long time to get better. Also it’s really hard to goal too, because one player is keeping the goal and at least 3 defenders are defending. Mostly in one match teams will score not more than 5. Every goal is one score. Even they can finish the game with draw. But in basketball if you draw, you add 5 more minutes for the game. And it’s not so hard to score, because you soot with the hand that means it’s kind of easy. Mostly in one game teams score 70-110 points. Score of shots are different depends on what kind of shot was that.
Fans! This is really important part of these sports. There is one disadvantage for visiting team. It’s called “home court advantage”. That means home team has extra player. Soccer fans are crazier and have more loyalty than the basketball fans. They paint their body and always sing song of their favorite team’s song. Sometimes they even fight to each other. A lot of people got killed on fight of soccer fans. Biggest soccer fans are Europeans. Most of the soccer fans are young adults. Basketball fans are mixed people. Young, male, female and even really old people. They don’t fight like soccer fans. They are more organized. And there are cheerleaders and pom poms. Their job is to cheer the team and dance for the audience.
These games require a good talent. You have to have speed, skills and also you have to be smart. Nowadays kids and young adults mostly prefer video games. I think this is wrong, because to play sports are good for health. They play sports and they still interested in it. But most of them just watch or play on computers; they need to play with their body. Don’t think it’s just good for health also its good for your beauty too. So take your ball and got off from your computer desk. This is one of great things to do.