Persuasive Outline
Topic- Soccer injuries
What About It?- The sport of soccer has many possible injuries and is more dangerous than football.
Stance- Soccer
Middle-
Paragraph 1 (Soccer Statistics)
- An estimated total of 148,913 soccer injuries in the US alone
- In the time of 13 years there was an estimated amount of over a million injuries for ages 13-18 alone
- There has been a significant increase in soccer related injuries among girls
- Concussions were more likely to occur in player to player rather than player to ball
- Player to player contact was responsible for over 40% of all soccer injuries
Paragraph 2 (Football Statistics)
- Head to toe in pads
- Multiple rules on how you need to take people down
- Many more players in football, and barely anymore injuries
- Helmets
- Mouth guards
- Face masks
- Worse shape than soccer players so injuries are easier to get
- Referees call every foul
- Getting less and less dangerous as they raise health awareness
Paragraph three (Comparison)
- Soccer injuries are intentional acts to knock someone away, where as football you are supposed to knock them down so there isn't much glory
- Soccer players wear only shin guards to protect themselves, but football players have much more pads
- Every player plays
- Much more running in soccer, more speed when getting hurt
- More likely to suffer from heat or overactive sickness/more running (soccer)
- Only 8 minutes of real play each quarter
Conclusion-
Soccer players are surely more likely to sustain injuries, the players are more violent and injures have recently skyrocketed in young child's play. Football players are covered head to toe in pad and the most common serious injury is a concussion. I am a soccer player myself (if you couldn't tell) and I know someone who had their femur broken in a soccer match. I have never seen a red card pulled, even though there have been plenty of times when it should have been. Soccer is definitely more violent than football and to and any football player that disagrees with me, I have the statistics to prove it.
