Soccer Vs Basketball Compare And Contrast

Soccer or Football as it’s known in Europe and South America, and Basketball both are sports that are played in Olympic Events, and they also played in high schools and colleges. Physical body contact is a part of these two games. Although that they’re played in different ages and they’re for both genders, the way that each game is played makes them have different fan bases. They both have different popularity around the world, and that causes a difference in the finical power. Soccer and Basketball are both played in the Olympic events, but they also have separate tournaments and events. The basic of soccer, it’s played by two teams, each team has 10 players plus the goalkeeper. There are 3 referees, one for the field to officiate and regulate the game; the other two are sidelines referees. The main referee has yellow and red cards to use (1 Yellow card=caution, 1 Red card=ejection, 2 yellow …show more content…
LeBron James is the most paid player in the NBA and he makes around $31 million per year. According to the Daily Mail newspaper; in the premier league, the average rate is $2.55 million per year. The largest transfer deal that happened in the soccer history was in the last transfer window (Summer 2016) when Man Utd (England) paid $120 million to get the French player (Paul Pogba) from Juventus. (FIFA WORLD CUP FINALS) where all national teams who made it and took place in this event, competing to achieve the final and be the world champions. Fifa World Cup Final is an event that took a place every 4 years and in different countries around the world (the last one was in Brazil at 2014). Basketball doesn’t have the same event for the national team that has the same media hype as Fifa World Cup, and that’s because of the different between their popularity around the world. Everyone will agree that the NBA is the toughest basketball league, and every basketball player dream is to play in the