Some people think that it is more beneficial to take part in sports which are played in teams, like football. While other people think that taking part in individual sports is better, like tennis or swimming. Discuss both views and give your own opinion

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Some claim that
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sports
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as football are more beneficial to players. Meanwhile, others hold a belief that sports that are played individually have superior advantages. In my opinion, both types of sports bring equal advantages On the one hand, by participating in
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team sport
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team sports
a team sport
, we learn to collaborate with others. In sport fields, individual ambition takes
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place to
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objective. Every
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member is working towards a common goal. To achieve
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goal, cooperation and coordination are of the essence. Members must work as a
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and achieve the maximum synergy even if that means someone has to make certain sacrifices.
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, a cyclist may take the leading position for half of the game and
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drop out so as to ensure the victory of his teammate. Or another case in point is that in football, a
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may have to sacrifice the opportunity to score a goal to pass the ball to his
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player
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if the chance of a goal being
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scored
is higher with his teammate.
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, solo sports can bring players a number of benefits, one of which is the cultivation and
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the maximization
of personal capacities. To be precise, when being without the assistance of others, one has to exert himself to the utmost to come up with solutions to win, and
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challenges
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challenge
his own limits.
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, in tennis, a
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has to
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his ball serves, predict where the ball falls and be agile in his movement, and he has to multi-task all these on his own.
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, when doing sports individually, people are liberated from the constraint of rigidly following a previously agreed plan, thereby having the freedom to experiment
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with
new ways of playing.
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,
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players often have a high sense of satisfaction. In conclusion, each type of sports has its merits in cultivating players’ personality development. It should depend on each
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as to what sports they should do
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • cooperation
  • team spirit
  • sense of belonging
  • community
  • leadership
  • trust
  • collective responsibility
  • dependency
  • self-reliance
  • self-discipline
  • goal setting
  • tailored development
  • flexibility
  • social support
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