Sports

Sports

Introduction

Sports have been around for most of this century showcasing outstanding athletes around the world. It has recently been heralded as the

performance revolution of the 1990s. The world of sports, in the United States, is a growing and ever evolving field. In this paper we will analyse different sports such as Basket ball, baseball, soccer and football.

Research Question

Sports psychology has been around for most of this century in an effort to increase athletic performance.

Search process

I use qualitative research method. In this method I searched different journals, books, articles and online material as well.

What I have learned

From this research paper I have learnt how to conduct a research in a proper manner and which research method is appropriate for such kind of subjects.

Means to me This entails a lot to me because I think that Sports psychology is the study and implementation of mental methods to enhance an athlete's performance. This unit of work has permitted me, as a researcher, to apply the different ways of motivation.

Discussion

Soccer

Soccer is over 2,000 years old. In ancient China, soccer was called 'tsu chu', meaning "to kick the ball with the feet". The Chinese used a leather ball and had goal posts 30 feet high. The Romans called soccer 'harpastum'. In eleventh century England, two villages would play against each other; up to 500 people would be on each team. The game would begin at the mid-point between two villages. Instead of a ball, the players hit a human skull; they later used an inflated animal bladder. The game ended when a team hit the center point of the opposing village (Woods, 1998)

Today, a soccer team consists of eleven members: eight offensive and three defensive players. The offensive players are outside and inside right forward, center forward, outside and inside left forward, right halfback, left halfback, and center halfback. The defensive positions are goalie, right fullback, and left fullback. The responsilbility of the offensive players is to score goals, while the defensive players are to keep the other team from scoring any goals (Weinberg and Gould, 1995).

The length of a soccer game varies, depending on players ages. An adult game is made-up of two 45-minute halves. Before the game, the referee calls each team captain to the center of the field . A coin is tossed; the captain that wins the coin toss can either choose to receive the ball or select his team's side of the field. At kick-off, the team not receiving the ball must be ten yards away from the ball. The objective of the game is to move the ball down the field and score goals by kicking the ball through the opponent's net. When the game ends, the team with the most goals wins. Every time one team scores, the other team receives a kickoff. As with other sports, there are some very specific procedures. In soccer, these are called 'starts and restarts' and are all related to where players are on the field ...