Beach soccer is a popular beach activity that brings soccer back to the beach. It is a sport similar to football and is played on the sand of the beach.
Beach soccer opposes two teams of five players, with frequent substitutions, on a field about three times smaller than that of a traditional football ground.
The fact that this sport is practiced on the beach is already excellent in itself for health. Moving your feet in the sand relieves joint pain, stimulates blood circulation and promotes the elimination of fats and toxins.
In addition, the sand absorbs shocks and makes it possible to work on unstable ground, which promotes balance and proprioception.
On the silhouette side, beach soccer is ideal for working on balance and all the muscles of the body. We run a lot in a game of beach soccer.
Beach soccer allows you to mainly strengthen the legs and the buttocks. It firms and shapes the buttocks and refines the thighs. But beach soccer also works the abs and pecs.
It’s a complete sport that calls on all the muscles during a match and contributes to giving you a dream body.
The practice of beach soccer requires a lot of technicality: acrobatic gestures in the air, passing movements made complicated by the sand, etc. The beach is physically demanding and requires some power in the legs.
To practice beach soccer, it is therefore better to have a good physical condition (speed, striking force of the ball) and an excellent moral and mental disposition.
To succeed in beach soccer, team spirit, perseverance, will are among the qualities required. In general, beach soccer players are field soccer players first.
However, it is accessible, even to non-soccer players and not necessarily reserved for high-level athletes. It can be practiced without constraints and in pleasure, without special equipment, in light clothing, without crampons or socks.
