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Let’s drive fast, make a left turn and repeat this process. Now, continue to do this for hours sounds exciting, right? Many people would be hesitant to consider driving a car around a dirt track for several hours on a hot Saturday afternoon as an actual sport. But then some find it interesting and this is where the story begins. So here we are at our home town race track Oklahoma Sports Park on another Saturday night like usually spend Saturday nights. Getting the cars ready and warmed up…

We love to kick the ball around, go to the pub and watch The United States struggle at the World Cup, play FIFA, or go weekend’s FC Dallas game. Youth soccer smashes the participation rates than football and baseball (basketball still is ahead). The identity of soccer never comes from someone who is older than 25 years old. They think soccer is a communist…

Vertical Soccer This exciting sport is played on a billboard painted to look like a real soccer field, with two goals mounted on either side. The players are held by cables around their waste and the ball is suspended using cables that hang over the middle of the field. The objective of this sport is the same as any other soccer game, score the most goals and win. Vertical Soccer was, at first, a “promotional experiment” by Adidas in Japan. The sport is not played regularly, but continues to be…

All energy systems are constantly working together, although there is always a bigger contribution from one energy system to another depending on the intensity and duration of the activity. During a soccer match the ATP-PC energy system is the dominant energy source for high intensity activities of up to 10 seconds. This is dominant when an outfield player is jumping for a header or a goalkeeper is diving to save the ball. The anaerobic glycolysis system is the highest contribution when working…

Soccer Popularity American’s continue to struggle to come to terms with the world’s most popular sport, soccer. Soccer was not created in America, instead it was an English import. Around the time that soccer gained popularity around the world, Americans were playing football and baseball. While soccer continues to grow around the world, it has slowly become a popular sport in the United States with the success of Major League Soccer. Soccer is not the most popular sport in the United States…

Summer Olympic wins (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012) and three World Cup wins (1991,1999, and 2015) while, the men have almost never stood on the podium let alone win a gold medal (History). Not to mention, a few of the female players are regarded to be better soccer players than the men. Players like, Abby Wambach, a forward for the female team, “has 184 international goals – more than any other man or woman in history” (Goff, 2015, par.1). Abby Wambach has broken the stereotype that women are not as…

The mental and physical attributes that all athletes attain are ridiculous and there are multiple sports that are considered to have the greatest athletes. Although every sport is physically and mentally demanding in their own way, soccer and hockey have some of the greatest athletes in the world. The question is, “Who has the greatest athletes, soccer or hockey?” Soccer players need so many physical attributes to play one 90 minute game of soccer. First, the most important, stamina. 90…

I believe that soccer is the ultimate team sport.Soccer brings people together, if both you and a complete stranger play or are into soccer, you can instantly connect and have a conversation. When Alvaro first came to our English class, I had never met him in my life, but we connected instantly because we both play soccer. Alvaro and I talked in both classes we have together about soccer. The soccer world is a community. It is a very popular sport in the world and fans bond over their favorite…

No matter if someone loves or hates FIFA video games, there is always excitement around the newest FIFA release amongst soccer fans. This year’s excitement is centered on FIFA 16, the newest installment in the FIFA series. Many hope that FIFA 16 would be the game that would fix all of the bugs and problems set in FIFA 15 and as of right now, it is that game. As with any new FIFA video game, there is always new features added in order to appeal to new or continuing fans. Even though FIFA 16 is an…

In 1993 after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, in an attempt to honor his deceased sister, Greg Mortenson became lost in the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan. He eventually stumbled into the remote village of Korphe, where he was nursed back to health by the village chief, Haji Ali’s family and treated kindly by the inhabitants. After Mortenson seeing the village’s school, a nonexistent building where students wrote with sticks in the ground without a teacher to…