Soccer Essay

The U.S. women’s soccer team filed a complaint against U.S. Soccer for wage discrimination, claiming they make roughly 40% of what their male counterparts do. This is only the beginning of a trend in wage disparity in the Major Soccer League. The National Women’s Soccer League, or NWSL, has a pay ceiling per player of just $37,800. The men in Major League Soccer make an average of more than $300,000 with a median of about $100,000. The teams in the NWSL have a salary cap of $265,000, but for the

Isabel Cesarotti Dr. Barron ENC 1101 12 September 2016 The Reality of Women’s Soccer One of the clearest memories I have is of the day when my mom sat me down, looked me in the eye and said to me that as a women in this world, I was going to have to work ten times harder as any man to command respect. She told me that as a woman in this world, there are certain inevitabilities I have to accept. The main one is that life is unfair. She said that accomplishments are inevitably going to be handed

Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter to U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati urging him to remove starting goalkeeper Hope Solo from Team USA due to her alleged domestic violence episode. U.S. Soccer has allowed Solo to play for Team USA without handing her any disciplinary action related to the incident. Sunil Gulati and U.S. Soccer need to send the right message to young fans, do the right thing and suspend Hope Solo immediately for her violent actions. U.S. Soccer is putting the sport's interests first

Women’s fan too cuz Lord knows the men’s team is terrible.” This come from two middle aged women decked out in U.S. Soccer gear sitting a row behind me. The group of people around them chuckle after hearing this exchange. It’s just a fact around here: the women play better. Just three months later I walk into Jordan Field, home of the Boston Breakers, a professional women’s soccer team and as we walk towards the stands one of my friends jokes that even our high school has a better stadium than this

INTRO In the U.S soccer or football hasn't caught on quite just yet. Even though the American people have had recent success like in the 2002 World Cup and the 2009 Confederations Cup. Though extremely popular in European countries, soccer took a long time to gain momentum in the United States because Americans put more money and attention into other sports like baseball, football, and basketball. Soccer eventually became popular in the 1970s, but then lost popularity again when the National League

The United States (U.S.) Women's Soccer Team has become more profitable, more watched, and more successful than the United States Men’s Soccer Team. They have gotten to where they are at now not through money but through their struggle to play the sport they love. U.S. Women’s Soccer started from the crazy thought of women playing a men’s sport to a dominating spot at the top of this nation’s soccer winning game after game. Still no matter if they are more profitable, more watched, and more successful

$3650 less than the USMNT earns for a loss. These numbers never balance out, and they should. Women's soccer is gaining popularity, and the USWNT does a better job at representing US soccer in terms of tournaments and wins. Although they play the same game for the same team, there is little equality between the USWNT and the USMNT. All over the world, more and more people are watching women's soccer. According to sbnation.com, “Viewership for the 2015

The Embracement of Soccer The rest of the world lives and breathes soccer much like Americans live and breathe football. The world embraces soccer because soccer brings people and their countries together. Nations throughout the world come together for 90 minutes to see what nation will prevail so much so that soccer is said to be the unofficial universal language throughout the world. But many people in the U.S. have never watch a full soccer game in their lifetime. This is why U.S. will never

Soccer is a game where nothing is predictable. Soccer is a game that’s been around since the eighteenth century and has a different effect on many athletes’ lives, including mine. My sophomore year of high school is over and I was finally over with a long season of high school soccer. Returning to my team of five years I was excited to go back and am comfortable with. Right as I approached my team I saw an unfamiliar face and instantly got intimidated. Trying my hardest to avoid him it seemed as

enhances the player’s physical ability and can be played solo or team versing an opponent for excitement. The origin of sport varies depending on what type of sport it is, for example, soccer originated in China, military forces in China around the Han Dynasty would play a game name Tsu Chu that was very similar to what soccer is today. There are a variety of sports from the skill of shooting a target accurately, archery, to the vigorous and tough sport, wrestling. Participating in sports can give the player