Health benefits

Soccer is a fantastically fun game and typically the child doesn’t even how it is helping to physically. Such health benefits include:

• increases aerobic capacity and cardiovascular health
• lowers body fat and improves muscle tone
• builds strength, flexibility and endurance
• increases muscle and bone strength
• improved health due to shifts between walking, running and sprinting.

Other benefits

Soccer offers so much more than a good workout. For example it:

• is generally a non-contact sport
• teaches coordination
• promotes teamwork and sharing
• teaches you to think on-the-go
• helps to increase skills in concentration, persistence and self-discipline
• is a great way to meet people and exercise with friends
• can provide an opportunity to increase your confidence and self-esteem, and help to reduce anxiety
• requires very little equipment so can be played in the backyard or park
• is relatively easy to learn, so beginners can easily join in on the fun and play basic soccer for recreation