Researchers have found that kids who play football have many benefits. Football provides physical benefits including strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility. Football helps them improve their speed, strength, hand-eye coordination and overall cardiovascular endurance. Football provides physical benefits including flexibility, lower the body fat and progressives muscle tones. This sport will also help them with showing them discipline, gives them many opportunities, and helps them with leadership. One reason why I would let my son play football is because football is a great resource that helps players with leadership. “For much of my playing career, most parents with young children who played football were most interested in my workout regimen and what supplements I was taking.” (Fujita) Playing football provides players with opportunities to develop skills in communication. “I found myself receiving e-mail after e-mail from people presumably motivated by keyword searches for “football, concussion, trauma, disease.” (Fujita) These abilities allow people to operate productively as leaders. Playing or coaching sports such as football, soccer and any other types of sport activities …show more content…
For those who choose to play such a dangerous sport should be aware of the damages it can cause your brain and body. “A sharpening focus on the risk of head injuries in football is leading parents to wonder whether the game is worth it for their children.” (Fujita) In other words Fujita is trying to say that even though all the positive advantages of playing football, no matter what players have a chance of getting head injuries or extremely hurt. In conclusion, I am alert of all the possible risks that can occur with playing football, but I believe that it will benefit my child with discipline, help them with opportunities in life, with that being said I would let my son play