Soccer(pro) vs Basketball(con)

"Most of the time players are walking or jogging" forwards are sprinting for over half the game, if course they jog around. It's not physically possible to sprint for 90 minutes straight. I wouldn't expect a basketball player to understand how tiring soccer truly is, they only have to run/stand in a 94 foot court, while soccer players are running back and forth on an almost tripled size of 300 feet. Soccer is an exercise called high intensity interval training which overall strengthens the heart and raises metabolism. This achieved by sprinting for short periods time and then jogging and doing this over and over again. This is a healthier exercise than throwing a ball to each other and moving around a bit/jogging. Yes you can get away with fouls easier in soccer but doesn't mean it's easier to hurt someone. You could intentionally hurt someone in basketball just as easy. Soccer is definitely more accessible. All you need is something to resemble a ball. Many legendary Brazilian players started As a child juggling (keeping the ball from the ground) melons or balled up news papers. And for a pick up game. All you need for example is two rocks to mark the goal. That's plenty easier to obtain than expensive basketball hoops in which you have to have in order to play basketball. You say all you need is a driveway and hoop but that isn't basketball. That's shooting hoops. So Parallel to this in soccer would be juggling which can be done somewhere as small as a 5 by 5 square with anything that can bounce off the foot. In many countries soccer can be played all times of the year and countries that do experience winter can play indoor which you say is different, but your statement is entirely false and invalid. Indoor soccer is exactly what it sounds like, indoor soccer with slightly different rules such as 8 players instead of 11 per team and kick ins, instead of throwins. There are many different types of indoor such as futsal. Which even then it's similar. "I think there is less intentional hurting in basketball." This argument is clearly invalid. In your own statement you said "you think" not you know. Total viewers of world in NBA final 2013 was 26 million viewers in the nation and 34 mill in the world. Keep in mind this only an American League. For the world cup, which is a world thing not just nation we had 24 million viewers in america, and 3.2 billion viewers world wide crushing NBA statistics with 46.4 percent of the world population. Your statement about declining mls attendance is false. This is true for the recent mls cup but not for average viewers in season. In season viewers for mls is rapidly increasing resulting in sold out season tickets ( Http://fansided.com... ) Your website about youth soccer is very misleading and is not right for the argument you are trying to prove. Youth Soccer is a business. There are plenty of other youth soccer associations within America. This Youth Soccer enrollment in US is declining because of their business. Their decline is likely because of players leaving to other organizations. It is still on a rise and gaining more population. You argue that a referees rule cannot be overuled when in fact it can. There are a total of three refs overseeing the game one center ref, and two side refs. The main purpose of the center is to call fouls, keep track of time and extra time, call goals, and give warning yellow cards and give red cards which kick a player out of the game leaving the team a player short.( this is also a method to Keep soccer safe in warning aggressive players with a yellow card and kicking them out with a red which also keeps them from the next game. ) The purpose of side refs are to call offsides and decide who gets a throwin or corner kick or goal kick. They may also flag fouls and to my main point let a center ref know that his call was wrong. So in actual reality to counteract your statement, a side ref can discuss with a center if a goal should have been a goal or not and the goal can either stand or be taken away. I look forward to my opponents final arguments and hope that they can get their facts straight.