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Javier Garzon Cruz

UWTRW 1101
Connie Douglas
November 18, 2014
Revolution Indoor Soccer
In the Revolution Indoor Soccer in Kannapolis, many of the people that attend to this
place are mainly Hispanic heritage. The soccer center has mainly males that come to play and
they make up most of the population in the soccer center. There is a sport center for playing
indoor soccer in Kannapolis. The port center is targeted mainly at males to form their teams and
play against other teams. There are two leagues in the soccer center, one of the leagues is male
only and the other is for females. There are more males that come to the soccer center to play
than there are females that come to play. On a Monday night when there is free play for all the
people, there are over sixty percent of males that come to play and less than forty percent of
females come to play. The females that show up to the revolution, not all of them play. The
females usually come to watch the males play instead of playing themselves.
Many of the females that show up to soccer to the center accompany their male partners
to the males games. There are more teams for males than that of females. The soccer league for
males has twice as more teams than the female league. There are fourteen teams for the males
league and there are six teams in the female league. The children that show up to the soccer
center are mainly boys as well. Many of the girls that show up stay with their moms and the boys
are running around with a soccer ball.

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The males encourage the young boys to play and be good at soccer and they take the
sport seriously. The girls are not encouraged to play soccer, although if they do play, the
spectators usually cheer hard for the girls because it is strange for them to play as a team.
Male Dominated Sport in Latin America: Soccer

The role of soccer in the life of Latin Americans is at a level of high emotional state.
Soccer is a cheap sport to play. To play soccer a ball and a team are needed in order to play. In
Latin communities soccer has become a form of social identity. Considering that soccer is a
cheap sport to play, many children in Latin countries become highly interested in playing soccer.
A prime example is Brazil where many children play for clubs in hopes to start playing
professional. However the sport is highly aimed at male children and the girls are rarely invited
to play the sport along with the males.
In professional soccer, the male teams are the shown on television and on the news way
more often than female soccer teams. There are more events that are worldwide such as the
world cup that is held every four years. The world cup consists of teams representing a country
in which all the team members are males. There is however a female world cup but it is not as
important as the male world cup. In countries such as Mexico and Brazil the males are pushed to
learn how to play soccer and the females are sometimes pushed entirely away from sports. In
Latin American countries there are no female professional leagues for soccer. Since there is no
professional league, there is no reason for the females to try to pursue a career as a professional
football player and they learn how to perform house wife duties. In Mexico and other Latin
countries, the females stay at home usually tending to the children while the males are working.

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The sport of soccer in Latin American countries is male dominated because of gender
roles. In Latin American countries, the women stay at home tending to their children and their
homes, while the males are away working. Although as education is rising in these countries, the
women have more options as to their careers and those who want to play professional soccer join
their countries national team.

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