Soccer: The Best Sport

Did you know Soccer is the most basic game with 11 players on a field including the goalkeeper and you try to score in a net without using your hands. Soccer is one of the most played sport around the world. FIFA says there is approximately 265 million people in the world playing soccer. Which is about 4% of the world. On another hand most sports like baseball and football are played and watched in one country. Soccer is one of the oldest sports and was played around 3,000 years ago. That's why Soccer is the best sport, It's the most popular, it has the oldest history and it is the most diverse sport.

The sport Soccer is known as football in most other countries. People say that Soccer was first played in england in around the 18th century.

But the chinese claim they were the first to play which the have proof. Finally now we can move onto the history of Soccer.

Around 3,000 years ago there was a game called Cuju is a chinese game and in english it means kick ball. Cuju is a game almost exactly the same as soccer with the same rules and everything. Cuju is one of the earliest form of soccer. But the english were the first to publish rules and make rules that you can't trip other people and shove and make uniforms for all teams. FIFA was made and introduced to the world in 1913 by the board of Great Britain. So that shows you how far back soccer goes to in the past.

Soccer is the most diverse sport because it is played in over 190 countries which there is only 195 countries is in the whole world. What makes it more diverse than other sports is that there is a world cup. The world cup is all the countries in the world that have a national soccer team play each other until there is two teams go against each other in the final and win. In Baseball and Football there is no tournament against different countries. Which makes it different than others.

So after writing about why Soccer is the best sport and showing why because It's the most popular, it has the oldest history and it is the most diverse sport. It's the oldest because it was first played about 3,000 years ago. It is most popular because 4% of the world plays soccer. Its is the most diverse because over 190 plays Soccer. If you are ever going to say soccer is not the best sport in the world you should begin learning about how old and popular soccer is by researching.