by Alvinbeo

Created on: July 27, 2010   Last Updated: July 28, 2010

Soccer is undoubtedly the biggest and most famous sport in the whole world. Its popularity exceeds all other sports with billions watching and/or playing the game worldwide. Its governing body, FIFA has the most number of member nations, and the World Cup, its flagship competition is universally considered as the biggest sporting event on the planet, eclipsing even the Olympic Games. To cut a very long story short, it is a very simple but yet very famous sport and every country, even the USA which is so resistant towards the sport have started to openly embrace the sport as one of their own. This sport is also being played by a huge number of people around the globe, and that includes kids/children all over the world, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, and social status. In the actual fact, the activity of playing soccer among kids, including random kickabouts whether on a proper soccer field, a makeshift one, a Futsal arena, or even on the streets like how many superstars such as Carlos Tevez and Thierry Henry started out when they were kids themselves are considered so normal, so widespread, that kids, and even their parents, are likely to not realize the plethora of benefits that they stand to gain, ranging from their physical well being, emotional well being, to the possibility to reach a dizzying height in life just from casually playing soccer with other kids on a good day.

Many people call soccer as a male dominated sport, and the more extreme ones would even declare that this sport should be out of bounds to the more feminine gender. However, since we live in the increasing era of emancipation between the genders, and also the increasing popularity and standard of the womens' soccer worldwide, and as the title suggests, since this is only talking about kids in general, the benefits highlighted in the following paragraphs will be applicable for boys as well as for girls.

The first benefit for the kids from playing soccer is obviously the fact that the game helps each kid to build a sense of team-work, and to constantly expose them in a team based environment. We know that soccer is one of the most team oriented sports in the world. Many people might argue that other sports such as baseball and basketball are also team oriented sports, but if we are able to quantify/measure the level of “team elements” then soccer will definitely be ranked up there relative to other sports. To cite a real life example, just look the excitement

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