Is soccer a contact sport?

[Anonymous]

Maryland Law is requiring contact sports to be played in a modified manner per CDC guidelines, which basically requires:

- reduced sized teams
- prohibition on playing outside of local communities
- Reduced competition/game time

If soccer is considered a contact sport, the above does not leave much to support efforts on league games and tournaments.

Reading between the lines, it looks like there will not be a viable soccer season in the fall or spring.

Are other states allowing soccer to be played without modifications?

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Per VHSL press release yesterday, soccer was classified as low to moderate risk contact sport:

Model 2 – Switch Fall and Spring seasons. Low and moderate contact risk sports that would be allowed to play in the fall are track and field, tennis, soccer, baseball, and softball. High risk sports that would not be played are boys/girls lacrosse. Spring activities that would be allowed are theatre, forensics/debate, and film festival

[Anonymous]

It is a contact sport, but not in the same vein as football, wrestling, hockey, boxing. Laws cannot be written to contemplate all scenarios and nuances, so some human judgment will have to occur which will lead to variance and complaints.

[Anonymous]

Contact is incidental.

Football’s risk is probably less the tackle and more the huddle and the line of scrimmage with players constantly exhaling in opponents’ faces.

[Anonymous]

Some encouraging news for soccer is they have started to risk stratify the sports and Virginia has categorized soccer as medium risk. Up to now all sports have been discussed in the same bucket. If we start breaking high contact and indoor sports into a higher risk category, that is somewhat favorable for soccer.

I am surprised that VHSL categorized a bunch of indoor activities as low risk.

[Anonymous]

I'm confused as the why soccer is medium risk and lacrosse is high risk. My DD plays both and I would actually consider soccer a higher risk than lacrosse???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused as the why soccer is medium risk and lacrosse is high risk. My DD plays both and I would actually consider soccer a higher risk than lacrosse???

I guess thats why you're confused. You would actually consider soccer a higher risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused as the why soccer is medium risk and lacrosse is high risk. My DD plays both and I would actually consider soccer a higher risk than lacrosse???

I guess thats why you're confused. You would actually consider soccer a higher risk.

I would too. I consider soccer a lower risk because although there is definitely contact, it is more incidental and not sustained with any one person for any length of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused as the why soccer is medium risk and lacrosse is high risk. My DD plays both and I would actually consider soccer a higher risk than lacrosse???

I guess thats why you're confused. You would actually consider soccer a higher risk.

I would too. I consider soccer a lower risk because although there is definitely contact, it is more incidental and not sustained with any one person for any length of time.

In lacrosse dont you have a face off similar to hockey but shoulder to shoulder with the other player? Also there are rules for contact meaning its intended unlike soccer where its unintentional. I am no lacrosse expert just some questions/observations.

[Anonymous]

To answer the subject line: yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused as the why soccer is medium risk and lacrosse is high risk. My DD plays both and I would actually consider soccer a higher risk than lacrosse???

I guess thats why you're confused. You would actually consider soccer a higher risk.

I would too. I consider soccer a lower risk because although there is definitely contact, it is more incidental and not sustained with any one person for any length of time.

For girls lacrosse, I can see the argument. Maybe because the contact is more upper body v. lower body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused as the why soccer is medium risk and lacrosse is high risk. My DD plays both and I would actually consider soccer a higher risk than lacrosse???

because they didn't categorize based on gender, checking is legal in boys lacrosse

[Anonymous]

Yes, but contact is only allowed within certain regulated limits, and it isn't the main point of the game. But, if you can't take contact, you're not going to be very good at the sport. My son is a left back and he has definitely come away from a few games with split lips, visible bruises etc.

[Anonymous]

Soccer played correctly is a "contact sport" but almost every game I go to moms and dads are screaming "that's pushing"... so most people don't really understand soccer.

[Anonymous]

They classified Field Hockey as high risk too. I don’t get that one....