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Abdullah Almansour
UWRT 1102-030
November 13th, 14
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EIP essay: Soccer

Football, known as Soccer in North America, is the worlds most popular

sport. It is played by more than 200 million player over 170 countries. This sport is
one of the oldest in the history. The chines military first played it from the third and
second centuries BC. In the United State, soccer is not the leading sport game unlike
most countries in the world. I would like to inform the audience more about this game
in many aspects such as its industry and how it is beneficial in terms of economy.

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When thinking about soccer. What comes to mind first is the world cup.
World cup is held every 4 years. Every country in the world thats interested in soccer
would love to hold this big event. The main reason is that it pumps a tremendous
amount of money that helps the economy of the country that is holding this event.
Tourists come from all over the world to attend the world cup and that is the reason,
which helps the economy to grow in that time.

The Last world cup was held in Brazil, despite the fact that almost half of the
citizens voted against their government on attempting to take this event, and there
were some riots going there but they were solved very fast. The graph above was
made 2 years before the world cup. So it was just anticipation. The writer whos Mr.
Harris said that it would generate 2.6 Billion Dollars. As a 4 weeks event this
number is good to push the Brazilian economy a bit above. On the other hand
many experts said that It would be a short term effect and there are many

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argument against their clams but I am not going to talk about them because they
requires an economical skills that I dont have.

Comparing what famous soccer players get each month now to 20 years ago is
a huge difference. In spit of the Inflation, nowadays famous soccer players like,
Critiosano Ronaldo, Messi, Ibrahemovic, and Gareth Bale have a salary between 2015 millions of doller each year only from their clubs. Not mentioning the sponsers,
Shirts, and TV ads.

Above is Cristiano ronaldo parking multi million sport car. He is The most most popular soccer player in the last 6 years. He
achived balon deore Twice whih is a golden ball given to the best player in the world and he is more likely to have it for the
thired time this year.

As any other sport. Some times soccer turn into an unfair sport. Especially
when it comes to money. In 2007 in the Italian Football League Jouventus F.C. was

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the champion, but after a series case it turned out that they sort of bribed to get the
title and therefore were punished by taking the title from it back and relegating the
club to a lower division.

Above is Maradona one of the top 5 best soccer players of all times kissing the world cup in 1994.

Another famous incident was on world cup 1986. When Diego Maradona,
known as the best player in football the history, had scored a goal using his hand
against England on knockoff stage. In soccer it is forbidden to use the hand except for
the goalkeeper. But unfortunately the referee acknowledge because from his view he
thought that Maradona used his head not his hand. It was clear from the TV reply but
it that time they werent using Video replays to decide for such a thing. Despite that
he scored another goal, which is one of the most amazing goals in history of football.
Here is a link to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk-kXwjASEE . And here is
the link to the goal he scored by his hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccNkksrfls.

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As any other sport, matches often become so heated and intense and as a result
bad things Happens, in 2006 World cup final match between France and Italy. Zidan
(Frances Captain and) and one of the top 5 football players in history, Was just about
to clinch the title or his country, the match was so intense. Unfortunately, Zidan lost it
at that match, When Italys defender Materazzi went to Zidan and it seems he was
cursing him. It appears to be something too bad as most Newspapers said it was
related to his mother and sister Talking about Zidan. Some Newspapers haired a lip
reader speech reader to try figure out what Materazzi was saying because Zidan
never told the public what he heard. Zidan couldnt handle it and attacked Materazzi
by his head like a bull. Here is a link to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITdPTKpGHuI

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Work citation:
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http://www.taysoccer.org/keep-calm-and-watch-soccer.png

https://www.tradingfloor.com/posts/the-economic-impact-of-brazils2014-world-cup-and-2016-olympics-526315521

http://www.sportskeeda.com/football/diego-maradona-records-infootball

http://bloguin.com/32flags/uncategorized/zidane-vs-materazzi-jonesvs-gascoigne-who-would-win-in-a-fight.html

https://www.tradingfloor.com/posts/the-economic-impact-of-brazils2014-world-cup-and-2016-olympics-526315521

http://www.businessofsoccer.com/2014/06/20/fifa-world-cupfinancial-impact-to-brazil-economy/

http://sporteology.com/cristiano-ronaldo-cars/