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 opinion

Some claim that
team
sports
such
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
team
sports
, we learn to collaborate with others. In
sports
fields, individual ambition takes second place in
team
objectives. Every
team
member is working towards a common goal. To achieve
this
goal, cooperation and coordination are of the essence. Members must work as a
team
and achieve maximum synergy even if that means someone has to make certain sacrifices.
For instance
, a cyclist may take the leading position for half of the game and
then
drop out so as to ensure the victory of his teammate. Or another case in point is that in football, a
player
may have to sacrifice the opportunity to score a goal to pass the ball to his
team
player
if the chance of a goal being scored is higher with his teammate.
On the other hand
, solo
sports
can bring players a number of benefits, one of which is the cultivation and 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
this
challenges his own limits.
For example
, in tennis, a
player
has to strategize 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.
Besides
, when doing
sports
individually, people are liberated from the constraint of rigidly following a previously agreed plan, thereby having the freedom to experiment with new ways of playing.
Therefore
,
such
players often have a high sense of satisfaction. In conclusion, each type of sport has its merits in cultivating a
player
's personality development. It should depend on each
player
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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