It is known that you enjoy what you love to do the most and what you love to do always make you happy. Nowadays, more and more people suffer from a burn-out or simply do not know how to handle stress the right way. I watched most European match and I support an English club called Chelsea.
Consistently, soccer has turned into an awesome piece of my life and influenced me to experience passionate feelings for the game. There are a considerable measure of reasons I have developed to love soccer. Soccer to me is the main game I realize that can address everybody on the planet; that is the reason it is known as a "worldwide game" and it talks one dialect called football.
Below are the reason why I love football and chose it to serve as my de-stressing tool.
1. It is quite simple
Soccer is a very easy sport to learn and play. Looking from the outside, it might seem really hard and confusing, but when you start learning, it is not that hard. Soccer involves a ball and a human. There are other rules and complex technicalities involved, but, with time, you would be able to understand them
2. Soccer video games
I love soccer to the extent I go out of my way to buy the video games for the sport. There is a popular soccer video game called FIFA. I have been playing FIFA since 2014. It is really fun, exciting, and competitive. I love playing FIFA and it has cured me of many things, funny enough. For example, there was a time I was really sick and I played FIFA with my friend on his PlayStation 4 for hours, and at the end I felt a lot better. I used FIFA to relieve stress because it helps me relax.
My beloving FIFA
3. It is very educating
I have learned so much from soccer throughout the years. The things I have learn through soccer, I don’t think I would have learned them anywhere else.
For example, through soccer, I know almost all the countries and cities in them. I know places like Zurich, Leicester, Liverpool, Munich, and Shrewsbury. I know these places because when you watch soccer, especially European soccer, you get to listen to a lot of analytical thought on teams that come from these places. Also, through soccer, I was able to score higher on my SAT. Listening to experienced commentators during the soccer matches also helped improve my vocabulary, and during my SAT, a question appeared about a word I heard a commentator use in a match the week before.
I used to tell people that
"If I were to study football, I will be a genius in it because of the knowledge I have acquired through loving, watching and playing it"
4. It is fun and brings people together
There are many instances where soccer was used for peace. In my country, Nigeria, soccer is a very popular sport and it is played and watched everywhere. For example, a civil war broke out in Nigeria from 1967 to 1970. In 1967, Pele traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, to play an exhibition match. In order to allow both sides of the conflict to see the greatest-ever play the game, a 48-hour ceasefire was called and honored. It was incredible seeing that millions of lives were lost in this war, and because of soccer the war had a ceasefire. Another example of this is a personal one. My brother and I never used to get along, and during those times, the only thing that kept us together was either playing soccer or watching soccer, and it was through this sport we finally became close. Another example is that we do play football every Friday at 4:30pm in my high school which made many people across the school know one another.
In conclusion, To me, soccer is more than just a sport; it is life . It promotes peace, love, and understanding and the best means to get relieved from pain.
All thanks to @healthsquared for giving me this opportunity to share this beautiful write-up.
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