Increase In Canada Of Soccer Players In The Soccer World

BY: Gerry Sofos

First reason why soccer players Increased In Canada

Source: Increase of Canadian soccer players graphs – Bing images

So ever since Canada made the world cup in 2022 and there is now a Canadian professional soccer league there has been a significant increase in people wanting to play soccer. As you can see by this graph here kids starting from 3 years old to 17 years old soccer is 2nd on the list for top 10 sports played amongst youth in Canada. You may ask why that is? Although soccer is a sport where it can help you learn how to play group sports and work with peers.

Which is very important in life because in jobs you are going to have co workers and bosses so soccer helps you to even helps you with life skills. With Canada making the world cup in 2022 and now that there is a Canadian professional soccer league it really helps the players to get even more of a chance to make it professionally. Especially with scholarships you can get and universities and colleges that you can play for can really give you a chance at making it professionally.

Second point of Soccer players Increasing In Canada

 

Source: Increase of Canadian soccer players graphs – Bing images

This graph shows a various increase in soccer. The drastic measures that the soccer programs have taken over the years to help the soccer in Canada grow. Canada had only made ever made one world cup before playing in this one. They did not do well where seeing that Canada fought hard and played well in what their group was known as the group of death really helps kids, teenagers or even adults watching that getting into soccer can be very good. Especially for kids and teenagers it gives them a boost in confidence so that they can go far in soccer and make it professionally.  can really help us to see in all the different places that soccer is becoming more and more influential to places like universities where one of my interviewees Liam Gonsalves plays. Liam tells us how many more people he is seeing trying out for York now not only that people can see a professional Canadian soccer league but also that Canada now has progressed so much that players can even represent team Canada in the world cup. Liam also provides more entail about what kind of soccer is going on now and what kind of enjoyment he is getting from the new competition that is coming from a bunch of different places around Canada.

Universities really help you to get a chance at a scholarship as well for soccer to the USA which gives you a really big chance at playing at a really high level to try to get yourself put in the MLS draft or maybe even signed for a Canadian Premier League team. Liam’s insight really gave his good opinion and shows people what influence is going on in soccer right now and really could help more people to see why he thinks it is not only the sport he loves to play and watch but could be for other kids, teenagers or even adults out there as well. Lastly, what Costa Smyrniotis gave us is his exact detail about why they made the Canadian Premier League and what it has done in terms of bringing more players in and helping the soccer world expand around Canada. He shows us what more people playing soccer in Canada can do for the programs in the Canadian soccer programs. These images will really help to show what Costa is talking about as well. They have similarities to both the interviews as they really show what the Canadian Premier League and what team Canada has done to improve the more and more people wanting to play soccer in Canada. Costa said this to “I think the key pieces now that we have a domestic league your putting a lot more energy and excitement into the youth game cause now there is something to aspire to in Canada there is a domestic league.”

Last Crucial Point Of Soccer players Increasing In Canada

 

Source: Increase of Canadian soccer players graphs – Bing images

What this image shows is the percentage in which you can have fun in soccer, develop social skills which is an important life skill. Also the fact that it is 50 percent good for girls as well is important because it is good to have a mixture of guys and girls who want to play the same sport.

Also the fact that it is over 50 percent for a major international sport is good because that means not only people in Canada want to play the sport but people around the world as well. Liam said as well in terms of more people playing soccer that “I certainly see a lot more people trying out for York but not just for York but for club soccer as well when it comes to League 1 and other leagues.” “For York definitely, I think mostly because seeing how well Canada’s done for the first time in 36 years it shows that their is a new foundation for soccer in Canada.” This really shows the increase of Canadian soccer players in the world of soccer.

Link for Podcast: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AmjgkvVQSagPhWFIzzbR9PbIKFO4?e=m97UjO

 

 

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