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Salaries of Female Athletes: Should They Be Paid Equal? Athletes of the female gender throughout the world are being seriously underpaid compared to their male counterparts. Women in sports are having trouble pursuing their dream of being a professional athlete because most can’t get scholarships to pay for school and training, and have less opportunities to play their sport because of underfunding of the program. After college, women athletes are having trouble finding jobs because there are…

soccer team manager has been described as “the impossible job”, even one of the best England manager Alex Ferguson said that England manager is an impossible job that he has turned down twice. Indeed, after Alf Ramsey lead the England team won the World Cup in 1996, none of an England manager has managed to achieve the quest of winning another major international tournament so far. The question is why is that so hard and impossible to win the international tournament. As the result, this essay…

Unit 6 Reflection: Assessing Life balance I grew up in a small town called Gibsons on the Sunshine coast. From a young age, my parents enrolled me in various sports. Before long, I developed a deep passion for soccer and aspired to become a professional or collegiate athlete. Since soccer was not very popular on the Sunshine Coast, I started commuting into Vancouver to play for various elite soccer programs. Word quickly spread throughout Gibsons regarding my lengthy commute into the lower…

It’s the biggest sports brand in the world, and there is one phrase that signifies what they are “Just Do It”. The image of Christiano Ronaldo, arguably the best soccer player in the world is the athlete of this image, as such for his image there is a lot of success behind him that drives him as being the icon he is. He has countless world player of the year awards, and team trophies, from club teams to national teams that help his brand and the brand that supports him. The image in example can…

measurement system is used, but also in what sports the US plays. The rest of the world has played and excelled in soccer and left the US in the dust. The trade off is that no one can match the US in basketball or football. America does not consider soccer as important as football and basketball, there are many reasons why. The US despises soccer because America hates low scoring games, the US is not the best in the world, and America absolutely detests tie games. One of the reasons the US…

model and is known world-wide. Roy Emerson has made major contributions to Australian tennis. Imagine someone dominating tennis by setting very high standards and creating many world records. As an extraordinary all-round tennis player, he has won twenty-eight grand slams in total and still remains the only male player to have won titles at all four Grand Slam events in both singles and doubles. His twenty-eight grand slams is an all-time record. He also played in the Davis Cup where he won…

There are a lot of great sports in this world. Soccer is the world’s most popular, drawing crowds in excess of 100,000. Baseball is America’s pastime. And football is the most exciting thing on television. But, for me the best sport is volleyball. I love volleyball for so many reasons that it is hard to list them all. But, I think the number one reason that I love volleyball is that it reminds me of high school, which was a super happy time in my life. I played on the varsity team with…

Have you ever heard of the fourth most famous athlete in the European League? His full name is Neymar da Silva Santos. He was born on February 5, 1992 in Sao Paulo Brazil. Growing up Neymar loved playing soccer he would go outside every day and play, trying to get better. His efforts paid off after He moved to Santos when he joined the club, Santos. Neymar came into fame at an early age at Santos, where he made his soccer debut at age 11. Later he joined Santos FC, signing a three-year…

experience and learn the skills and rules of many different sports. Among these sports, soccer was one of my favorites. Participating in this sport had many benefits including health, and skill benefits. According to the 2006 FIFA Big Count, “there were 265 million soccer players in the world, 270 million when referees and match officials were…

things that FIFA seemed to have in place, yet here we are with a great deal of corruption and football fans calling for reform. As the co-President of FIFA, I will help restructure an organization that will be free from corruption and that will restore the global soccer community’s faith in FIFA. The vision statement I would put in place as co-President is: “Changing the game. Changing the world.” While this vision statement is similar to the current statement “For the game. For the world.”, it…