Team sports are important for many reasons including better physical and mental health, learning important life skills, developing social skills. There are many different types of team sports including soccer, basketball, volleyball, rugby, touch football and lots more. Here is why I think team sports are important:
Firstly, sports are known to improve people’s physical health, team sports help because making exercise a regular habit from a young age is a way to make sure that kids grow into a fit and healthy adult. In most team sports, you learn the importance of eating right. Playing sports help develop bone and muscle strength, which is good for getting stronger. It can also help prevent illness or diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, and heart diseases. Sports help to prevent obesity (which is a worldwide problem). Worldwide obesity has tripled since 1975. In 2016, over 340 million kids were obese and over 650 million adults were obese!
The second point I am going to talk about is mental health. Team Sports help with mental health because they make you feel good about who you are. Team sports help against depression and anxiety because they make you feel good. Kids who play sports are more satisfied with life. Sport helps kids feel like they belong to a team.
The third point I will talk about today is learning important life skills. In team sports you learn good life skills like cooperation, respect, commitment, confidence, patience, the ability to make friends and teamwork. For example, in soccer one player can’t save a goal, dribble the ball up the field and score! So, these skills are very important in life and are great to have.
The last point I will talk about is social benefits, playing sport means kids are expected to follow rules and understand that they will be punished for bad behaviour. It will also teach them to take directions from the coach, referees or other adults, like in the classroom they are expected to follow the teacher’s instructions. In soccer the referee expects you to follow the rules but if you don’t do that then you will either be told of, given a yellow card or sent off. In team sports you develop relationships with your team mates and the coach.
So that is why I think that team sports are very important and I hope that you now also understand why. It doesn’t matter if you are a kid or adult you can still think about registering for a team sport now to develop some skills, get healthier, make friends or just to have fun!