Sports Journal: My Favorite Sport, Race, and the Importance of Order

This sports journal reflects on the author's passion for soccer, exploring the lessons learned, and the development of leadership skills. It also delves into the significance of race and ethnicity in sports, discussing historical instances of discrimination and the ongoing challenges faced by athletes of color. The journal touches upon the importance of governmental orders in sports, the value of teamwork, and the author's personal experiences. Furthermore, it examines the reasons behind black dominance in sports, considering both physical and environmental factors. The journal is a personal reflection, providing insights into the author's perspective on sports and its broader societal implications, including the need for fairness, order, and community involvement.

Running head: SPORTS JOURNALS
Sports Journal
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
My favourite sport......................................................................................................................2
I love sport..................................................................................................................................3
Race and ethnicity in sports.......................................................................................................3
Why do we need order?..............................................................................................................4
"I did it for a team".....................................................................................................................5
Explain black dominance in sports............................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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My favourite sport
My favourite sport is soccer.It is one of the most popular sport in the
world.Throughout the countries around the globe, this game is played.I have been playing
soccer for 2 years now.During my initial days I was not this much fond of this game, but
gradually I developed liking towards it. Playing soccer gives me happiness and keeps me
motivated and energized all the time.I also feel relaxed and confident while playing the
game.My entire exhaustion dies out One of the biggest lessons I learned through this play is
not to underestimate the power of an opponent and never to give up.Besides, soccer has
helped me in developing and improving my leadership skills.The game includes eleven-
player on each of the side who tries to forward the ball in the opponent's court by crossing the
opponent team and shooting the ball in the opponent's court by creating series of passes
(Blackett, Evans & Piggott, 2017).It is not a mere game of having fun and kicking a ball, it
requires lots of basic skills and thoughts to play the game.I feel strong while playing the
game.This game has taught me the lessons of teamwork and has created a strong sportsman
inside me.Some of the best examples of soccer include FIFA world cup and UEFA
champions league that is played throughout the world (Love, Kopeć & Guest,
2015).Spectators from all over the world come to see soccer with their full soccer spirit
during the world cup season.Even if the victory does do not come every time I still love to
play soccer.

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I love sport
I love the sport because I love my life.Sports being one of the basic joys of the life
gives me positive vibes.It has been a significant portion of life since I was a little kid.Some of
the reasons I like sports are rivalries; rivalries are different and unique to be watched in
sports.Teamwork; it is one of the most important factors in sport and I just love to watch
players coming together on one platform to showcase their different abilities and talents with
respecting each other.I believe that sport is the one of the best way an individual can shine, an
amazing performance in the final stage can change a players career and fan following.Sport is
one of the best entertainment ones can have and it involves lots of emission and passion to
play sports (Esmonde, Cooky & Andrews, 2015).Beside the factor of competitiveness, the
sport is also a way of bonding with the friends and enjoying each others company.Winning in
sports is not everything, it is just a thing like boosting up the confidence inside.I love sport
since everyone is considered equal more or less while playing.When we win, we celebrate
and when we lose we gain experiences to perform better in our next game.Apart from the
personal pleasure and joy, sports is the best when it involves the local community in it.Good
sport is the result of an effective leadership.Besides I love sports because it gives me new
opportunities to make new friends.I believe it is one of the best entertainment ones can have
in their life.

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Race and ethnicity in sports
One of the most fundamental factor in the context of sports is the concept of ethnicity.
Ethnicity is much closer related to the factor of race (Bolin & Kurtz, 2018).Sometimes both
of these factors are confused since both represent the classification and observation difference
by various people.Racism has been a much-debated topic throughout the world for many
years, but still, the abolition or eradication of this topic has still been a big
challenge.Historical pieces of evidence prove that black Africans had to go through tough
times while participating in sports activities.The world was not at all supportive towards
black athletes.Even the black people had to go through the tough test before applying for
world tournaments and faced lots of discrimination in the sports activities.As far as I
remember, one of the notable shreds of evidence of racism in the history of sports activities
was in the Berlin Olympics of 1936. Even after tremendous marginalization by the white
people, that Olympic noted the first black people to win 4 gold medals in the Olympics
(Tukachinsky, 2015).The bad practices of racism are still prevalent in the world today.Often
it has come to notice that the black athletes mainly the female ones are the silent victims of
assaults, physical abuse and mockery due to their race.The context of ethnicity is still a very
big question in the context of sports.Recognition of the black athletes are far less than the
white athletes and the concept of racism has still not been fully erased.Hence it needs to be
dealt with strict policies and measures.

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Why do we need order?
Governments of different states throughout the world organize and sets up national
and international events of sports (Carling et al., 2015). They support the sportsperson who
represents their respective jurisdictions and play for the state by taking salaries and pieces of
training.I take the utmost pride in the performance of our fellow countrymen in these vents
and pray for their success.I celebrate their victory and mourn their losses as much as the
athletes of the country do.I believe that governmental orders and rules are required while
engaging any player to play for a team or for a country.This is because a specific order can
safeguard their position in the team and gives each and every athlete the enthusiasm and the
energy to perform in spirit while playing in the team. Besides this governmental orders and
officers of the government should be appointed for the sports association to investigate if
each and every team is performing well in the sports (Lench & Straus, 2015). Expenses such
as the cost of the team players, necessities by the players and their essentials are bor by the
state government.One of the most notable expensive world cup tournament in the history of
the sports is the World Cup tournaments. Improvement of the infrastructure of the sports
activity should also follow some rules and orders for an effective and clean sports
environment (Van den Hurk & Verhoest, 2015).Athletes perform on the ecosystem on the
platforms provided by the state government.

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"I did it for a team"
I love to play soccer. Soccer is generally played in team .Team management is one the
important thing that needs to follow and practiced while playing in the team.I lead my team
and the victory in any of the tournament we play is the victory of our team.I did it for my
team.On each and every victory of our team, we celebrate with all of our team
members.There are many benefits that can be gained from participating in the sports
activity.Team participation is essential to build self-esteem and promote social interactions
and helps in gaining lessons of responsibility among the athletes of the team.Participation can
increase one’s self-esteem (Drake et al., 2017). Being a part of the team, I receive enough
praise and recognition which boost my self-confidence to guide my team in developing
strategies to beat my opponent team in the game of soccer.

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Explain black dominance in sports
It has been highly noticed that the black people are tremendously good at the sports.It
has been an ever growing question that why black people are good at sports and why the
black people dominate the sports industry.They are a high level of suspicion that the black
athletes are physically better.There lie some differences in the concepts regarding this
belief.The white people or the white athletes dominate the sports which include expensive
pieces of equipment.Some of these sports are golf, sailing, hockey and more.Very less
number of black people are seen to play these types of games unless they are millionaires.It
has been a much-rumored slogan that white people can’t jump while the black people can't
swim.This is said because the black people tend to have easier body skeletons and lower
levels of body fat.This is one of the major physical traits that the black people inherit from
the tropical areas of Africa.In the united states, the sports world is entirely dominated by the
men and women of West Africa (Sorokowski et al., 2014). The black African is advantageous
in this sector due to the low body fat and this they can sprint and can engage in other hard
sports activities like football, basketball and more.In the sports activity of long-run African
are advantageous due to the lack of their lower calf muscles or Gastrocnemius.Researchers
have found out that the black athletes have a phenotypic advantage.They have some of the
characteristics of the body that developed over the evolution of thousands of
years.Environment and culture also play a very important role in the evolution
difference.These are some of the factors that imply the genetic variations within the black and
the white athletes (Majors, 2017). Another of the important factor for the development of the
body of the black Africans is that the Africans do well in agility and quickness since they
spend most of their evolutionary history near their origin, while the rest of the world has
migrated to different regions and climates.

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