Mathematics in Soccer

by Romar Wallen

Submitted : Fall 2017

Soccer or football is the world’s most popular sport, by a land slide. It is traditionally played with the use of a round ball the size of a huge coconut and two nets for each team to protect, on a rectangular field. It is enjoyed by over two-hundred and fifty (250) million people in over one-hundred and fifty (150) countries across Earth. In the United States, co-incidentally, it is only ranked seventh among popular sports watched according to richest.com rankings of 2014, it has a 3% increase in viewership across the nation, at 6%. Despite the sport’s arbitrary and infamous compelling nature: the sports actual interaction consists of several universally accepted scientific and mathematical variables: Every player has a weight (force) and runs at some rate of speed (velocity). In order to, effectively and consistently be dominant in the genre, many experts have embraced illustrations of science and math  further master the sports. Coaches are also now being heavily encouraged to take courses in biology, engineering and social sciences at the tertiary level, to continue coaching at the highest level of the sport. Today we will be exploring the fact that every player has a mass and is moving, which is referred to as momentum, in science. Or a driving spirit by an ecstatic commentator, that is describing a team’s dominance in the game or simply over some period of the game. Learning how to capitalize on it during the game is crucial to success in the sport.

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