Comparing Soccer and Water Polo

The history of sports dates back before the discovery of America or even the birth of Jesus Christ. Sports have been in a constant evolution ever since their introduction to the world, such as Tsu’Chu to soccer or polo to water polo. Although soccer and water polo are popular in America today many athletes have come to love these two unique sports. Both sports are physically exhausting, demanding all an athlete has to offer to the game. They test the limit of the body and push it into the next level of competition. To a new comer these two vicious sports seem drastically different, but when it comes to the basics no two sports could be more alike.

Soccer is a sport widely known and loved throughout Europe, but little in the United States. It is a sport restricting players to only their feet, and zero contact with their hands. Played on grass or turf fields with two teams of eleven giving all they have for all ninety minutes of the game. Teams wear matching uniforms so they can tell who is on which team at a glance. Soccer players must also arm themselves with shin pads to protect themselves. To men and women who do not follow the sport, it may seem quiet easy, but in reality it is far from it. The use of body movements and tricky footwork are used to throw off your defender and advance your team onto the opponents side. Defenders are more than willing to throw there body at an offensive player, elbow them, or even kick at their shins just to take control of the ball. Soccer also has many restrictions and regulations to how far a player can go. A defender slide tackling an offensive player on a break away could result in a yellow card, which is considered a minor offense if the defender is only presented with the card once. But i...

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... type of ruling system, along with the types of fouls that would be committed in that sport. Plus the different type of field settings stand the two sports apart by themselves, along with the amount of players that are in the game at a single time. The last difference would be that the teams not only wear different types of uniforms but also use different types of equipment within that corresponding sport.

Soccer and water polo can seem drastically different from each other when you know little about each sport itself. Although there are some drastic differences between soccer and water polo such as where it is played, or what body part it is played with. There are also similarities such as what they are played with and the amount of skills you need to be able to play each sport. Water polo and soccer are not too different from each other as people would believe.