Can Football Affects Mental Health

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Global Perspectives 0457 June 2024 Individual Report Narmer American College EG064. Changing Communities Question: Can football affect your mental health? 9146 Hamza Adham Hany Mohamed Abdelhady. Word Count 1692 Football is a sport where there are two teams each team has 11 players it's not just a sport its therapy for many people. Some people think that playing soccer less stressed and you calm your mind and leave everything behind and just focus on the game. but for some other people soccer can be competitive and they worry too much maybe about not scoring a goal or having a bad game. Some people risk all their life just to make it pro in soccer, and they leave their family and everything behind and drop out of school so they …show more content…

Brazil is a country that soccer and it is the only sport that people watch in their country, they have more than 19 million soccer supporters. In Brazil there are for and against people about soccerfootball. All the kids grew up playing soccer because it is so popular in their country with over 2 million people registered in 29000 clubs and all the kids see soccer as their favorite sport. The sport in their county brings families back together. Some professional players in Brazil face racism because many of them are dark skin colored, so therefore it affects their mental health. After the football season the player Richardson wanted to see a psychologist after playing against Bolivia and being substituted while winning 5-1. So even getting substituted can make you feel miserable and empty, and it can make you feel that your just not good and it can lead to visiting a psychologist. Anxiety and depression and mental health issues come from not doing your best in the game and maybe being afraid to not doing your best and that is the biggest problem if you are stressed in your game you're going to play so bad and that can lead to failure and depression some football players quit this sport because they're stressed in every game they play and they're scared that their manager shouts at them so they lose …show more content…

They asked them about the quality of sleep they get and the quality of their life. 40 players two questions each. more than 50% of the athletes in soccer gained weight during the lockdown. Covid 19 has affected the mental health of EGYPTIAN SOCCER PLAYERS(TEENS) (MF, 2021). Local Last week 5th November I went to Platinum Club so I could interview some soccer players first of all I headed to the football pitch and I wanted to look for teens because I’m only going to interview teens. I study my questions well so I can ask them, the first guy I saw on the football pitch was 17 years old, he didn’t play in any club before, he just played in the club. I asked him when did he start playing soccer and he says I started playing soccer when I was 7 years old, I asked him if he had any mental issues coming from soccer, he says NO because he didn’t take football professional so he hasn’t had any stress coming from this sport. The next player was 19 years old he played in al Ahly club I asked him if he has any mental health issues coming from soccer and if you have state them, he says I have a lot of mental health issues from soccer like getting stressed when the ball comes towards me afraid of making mistakes so the coach yells at him or gets him subbed out of the game. And when he gets stressed from the competition, he gets anxious

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