The most significant health benefits from soccer are the social skills and the improved self-image. Soccer is a team sport, children must cooperate and communicate for the team to succeed. When playing in a team children learn to pass the ball to each other, know when to run up the field and when to run down and how to follow a game plan which connects them to one another. Working as a team and communicating develops the child's social skills. Soccer improves the child's self-image, even though a team has individuals of different levels a lost or won game is thanks to the whole team, not the individual which lowers some of the pressure that individual sports might give the child.
There have been numerous researches done to prove these health benefits and as danish researcher Peter Krustrup said: 'soccer provides broad-spectred health and fitness effects'. Introducing children to a team sport like soccer is a fun way to ensure them to a healthier life. Being in a team keeps the child motivated to keep on practicing because otherwise they will fall behind in the skills compared to the rest of the team. Soccer can be a big part of a child's life for it can be played as a child, teenager, adult or senior citizen in many different levels.