Compare And Contrast Soccer And Volleyball

Sports! Almost everyone loves to play them, but the question is which one? Between soccer and volleyball, many people feel that soccer is the better sport. Both soccer and volleyball are played worldwide by both men and women, but “Soccer is the biggest global sport and a top 10 sport in all countries measured,” as stated by biggestglobalsports.com. Volleyball and soccer are played differently in many ways. They also have incredibly different histories to them. Volleyball is now 100 years old, and over the years the ways of playing have changed drastically. It originally began with a man named William G. Morgan when he decided that there should be a way for all people to exercise while having fun, so he took a tennis net and instructed …show more content…
Teams commonly use a method of bump, set, and spike. The players first “bump” the ball to get the ball under control to their teammate. The next player receives the ball, and “sets” it to another player who will send it over the net. The final player spikes it over the net toward the ground to score their team a point. Whenever you are going for the ball, be sure to call it out by saying …show more content…
Soccer began in Europe and Ancient China. It was originally used as a preparation for war, to honor false gods, and just for entertainment. The first rules were created by the Football Association (FA) in Cambridge, England, in 1863 which was also when the first official soccer game was played. The only place in the world to call soccer by that name is the United States of America; everyone else calls it football. The World Cup, which allows the different countries to play each other in soccer, began in 1930. The American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) was created in