Soccer Club Sociological Analysis

The event that I attended was a soccer game, Cornell Men’s Soccer Club vs Cortland Men’s Soccer Club. The game was during a nice Sunday afternoon on October 7, 2017 at 3pm on the turf field behind the main football stadium at SUNY Cortland. The game took about two hours give or take, including the extra times in each half of the game. Soccer is composed of two 40 to 45 minutes each half, with a few minutes added for the time that is lost during the subs exchange, the throw in’s, the goal kicks, corner kicks, the fouls, the free kicks, and in occasions the penalty kicks. The purpose of this event is to score more goals than the opponent team by kicking a ball into their net on the other side of the field. Soccer can have many sociological concepts,

Women for centuries have been known to be maternal creatures, meaning that a women are seen to be the total opposite of a jock or do anything that is male dominated. According to Coakley “to avoid labeled as invaders, girls, and women often chose to call themselves “ladies” when they played sports prior to the 1980’s.” this shows to say that women were forced to make themselves seen as less than men in sports. Coakley also says “this was done to let men know that they knew “their (inferior) place” in sports and would not take resources away from the serious sport played by men.” Now, in the 21st century that mentality isn’t the same anymore, at least in the world of soccer. As known soccer was always seen as a male dominated sport, but women have come to equally be dominate in the sport as well. The game that I went to see the men’s game, but I played soccer for half my life and I know what it was to be a female athlete from a young age. Seeing the boys play wasn't any different than when I used to watch my friends' games or watch my games when I was injured. Over the years gender equality has come a long way, which has given many young women a chance to develop as female athletes not just in soccer but in other sports as well. This relates to Coakley because it explains that women have come a long way since two generations ago. An example Coakley illustrates is the recent 2012 Olympics “The U.S. team had more women than men” “Every nation’s athletes included women.” and “There were no male-only