{"id":4665,"date":"2023-08-11T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2023-08-14T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:22:12","slug":"three-reasons-why-your-daughter-shouldnt-play-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/three-reasons-why-your-daughter-shouldnt-play-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Three reasons why your daughter shouldn\u2019t play football"},"content":{"rendered":"

The kids are back in school, and the habitual hunt for healthy, wholesome hobbies is on. Will it be cooking or curling this time? How about choir singing, maybe cloud watching for a change?<\/p>\n

Not for our 12-year-old daughter. Owing to long-standing peer pressure she insists on trying her hand (i.e. feet) at football, which is fine with me \u2013 as long as the ball keeps rolling in our tiny backyard. Organised football is a different business, of course, but modern, malleable parents can hardly be expected to overturn the globally binding Declaration of the Rights of the Child with perfectly rational arguments. Yet there\u2019s no harm in trying, as they say.<\/p>\n

To begin with, consider injuries. Decades ago, a wise old sports-minded man<\/a> here in Finland argued that if human beings were meant to play football, our knees would surely bend both ways. They still don\u2019t, and some of us (parents, not kids) find it hard to bend them at all.<\/p>\n

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Next, think about role models with outrageous habits. Just the other day I chanced upon a real-life video clip<\/a> in which an apparently famous footballeuse literally walked all over her opponent. The ugly World Cup incident occurred not far from Papua New Guinea, once famous for similar behaviour including cannibalism \u2013 and it just might have expanded the naughty player\u2019s fan base.<\/p>\n

Finally, and this should really be the closing argument, in my youth most decent girls knew better than to kick a ball around. And they didn\u2019t admire boys merely on account of our dribbling ability.<\/p>\n

Such a pity that scouting is not considered a sport. Last week\u2019s scout camp on an isolated island proved to be one of the summer\u2019s highlights for our family, including the hobby-seeking young lady. Apart from hiking and swimming and other outdoor activities, the gutsy scouts practiced non-conventional ball games and survival sports such as mud wrestling.<\/p>\n

No complaints were registered, not a single kid yearned for rigid, rule-bound association football. Be a sport, become a scout!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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