Your Football Stats – World Cup and All

Besides being a fun team sport, football provides a great way to get in shape. If you have trouble sticking to a dedicated exercise regime but enjoy the camaraderie of team sports, football may be a good choice for you. Local football leagues are typically easy to find and in a pinch you can always get a group of your friends together for a game on a weekend.

Throughout the course of a 90-minute game, a typical football player (the goalie being the exception here) may cover 4 to 5 miles. Of course, not the entire duration of the game is spent at full throttle. You’ll walk, jog, sprint and backpedal to achieve this distance. The point is, you are moving constantly.

Now let’s discuss what this activity does for you.

Weight loss: running burns more calories per minute than almost any other form of exercise. So it is an effective way to lose weight. While running, body’s energy demands are higher which in turn results in improved metabolism.

People tend to laugh when football and sex are mentioned. Personally, footballand sex go hand in hand. When a team wins, a player excels, or even a sports writer is able to write with success is linked to increased libido and sex.

A Research Group in Sweden did the first studies in 2004 linking the success of that country’s team with the sex drive. When Sweden won their games, the sex drives increased while the opposite happened.

But there is no need for a research study when confronted with the reality that many women have watched football [football] not only for the game but also because of their love for the celebrity status of Beckham, Ronaldo, and others. As a man, Roberto would confess that he likes the US Womens Football Team not only because of the sports but because of the players such as Mia Hamm. Mia Hamm’s and the US Womens Team victory over China increased my sex drive to the point that my wife became pregnant.