Compare And Contrast Soccer And Basketball

Soccer and basketball are really competitive sports. They are compared and contrasted in many ways. Soccer and basketball are huge talked about sports. They are talked in constrasting terms mainly, but they have similarities which are really tiny and not really noticeable. To tell the similarities and differences are how people play them, when they are played during the year, and the origin of each.
To begin, basketball and soccer are mainly different on how people play them. Basketball is with one’s hands and no feet. On the other hand Soccer uses both one’s hands and feet. In both of them one has to dribble, but in different ways. One dribbles the ball with your feet for soccer, but can use your hands to throw the ball back in play. Basketball is dripping from one’s hands up and down the court. In both of the sports players run back and forth on the court or field. Soccer players run up to on average 7-9 miles per game. On the other

hand basketball players run on average around 2 miles or less. Coaches are only allowed up to eleven players on the field at one time. It is way less in basketball, coaches are only allowed five. So, basketball and soccer are clearly played differently, but can have some of the same tasks during a game.
Next, the sports are played during two opposite season of the year.

Basketball is played during the winter seasons, November-January. It starts a little before winter, but the weather always makes it seem like it is winter in November. It can also be played in the summer time. Most high school teams play summer league games. Those games go almost all summer therefore some kids do not have a summer break really. Even fall leagues can be played for those not in any other sport. Those players in another sport manage to play two at the same time. Soccer is different it is mainly during the spring season. It starts in late March and goes through the beginning of June. Soccer players have a longer summer than basketball players. Players can play during the summer, but it is usually closer to fall when one starts playing again. It is also played in the winter like basketball except does not go as long. Basicly, soccer and basketball are played during opposite times of the year. So people can play both of them if they like both

sports.
Finally, basketball and soccer started off as nothing, but then people created them. A sport like soccer was played in China, Japan, Egypt, and Greece before it became a sport in England. Basketball was created in 1891 by James Naismith combining soccer and lacrosse. Soccer was played in different ways from 5000 B.C. to 1331. Then the game which was close to what soccer is today, became banned since it was violent. Basketball was first played as a game with two soccer balls and peach baskets nailed to a wall 10ft in the air. In 1620 in North America, Native American played pasuckuakohowog, meaning "they gather to play ball with the foot." Basketball was played from only 13 rules; it had to be stopped every time a basket was made to get the ball down. Soccer was changing to create a better way over the years; rules were added so it is safe to play in modern time. Basketball is the same way safe to play these days. The sports both started off as one game and became different after rules were applied.
Concluding, soccer and basketball are both huge played sports. How they are played, what time of the year they are played, and the origin are ways to compare and contrast the two sports. People see basketball and soccer as two different sports not having any similarities. Both sports are very competitive to people; you can go to the olympics and even beyond that. Of course there are steps before going to the top levels.