Why netball is better than soccer

People get pushed over and ran into a lot and some of my teammates are on the floor for pretty much most of the game sometimes because they have been shoved over.

I usually come home from netball matches with scratches all over my arms. So yeah netball is a contact sport. Netball is not a big contact sport. Soccer however is not a contact sport at all. Soccer is a fall down and pretend some contact happened and hope for a free kick kind of sport. Honestly soccer is a lot more about acting than being a sport. Some of the best soccer players should win some Academy Awards. We are using contact more because we are jumping for the ball whilst soccer is just kicking a ball around a field.

Soccer has a truly global reach; football is largely contained within North America. Soccer is like an international language that crosses cultural barriers, allowing you to share your love for the game with other fans throughout the world. Whether you are in Brazil, Burundi, Belgium or Bangkok, you find people with a common interest in soccer.

Soccer provides more opportunities to compete internationally, at amateur and professional levels. Youth teams often go on tour abroad, and individual players can train in soccer camps across the world. At the highest level, soccer also gives you the chance to represent your national team against all other nations on the planet, something that football does not offer in any comparable way. The one-year study found that football players had the highest injury rate, with 4. Male and female soccer players had a rate of 2.

Your Shopping Cart. No Items Continue Shopping. Popularity Soccer is the most popular sport in the world in terms of player numbers. They have won the last three World Cups in succession.

On the domestic scene too, the Trans-Tasman league, played across Australia and New Zealand, is the strongest in the world. Football is now, according to the data, also more popular among both year-old girls and boys than basketball, athletics, bicycling and cricket. Cricket, a sport whose national team captain — the male version — is widely considered to be only second in stature behind that of the prime minister, ranks as only the seventh most popular sport among this age bracket.

The intricacies of sports like cricket come later. The newly released data on the whole is encouraging; more Australian kids are participating in a wider range of sports than they were 12 months ago. Only the truly committed prevailed. A girl playing football was a test of her environment too.