Sports practice has both positive and negative influences on society. In addition, it is well known that people who have a sports routine in their day-to-day lives have a better and more lasting quality of life than those who have more sedentary habits. Above all, an essential factor in exercising is that it can help us prevent diseases such as hypertension or obesity, which are increasingly common at an early age. Sports can help develop physical skills, exercise, socialize, have fun, learn to play as part of a team, learn to play fair and improve self-esteem. Sport helps children’s physical development by improving and strengthening their physical and mental capacity.
Sport contributes to establishing social relationships between different people and cultures and thus contributes to instilling the notion of respect for others, teaching how to compete constructively without making antagonism an end. Another significant social value in sports is learning to win and recognize defeat without sacrificing goals and objectives.
Sport is a transmitter of values in the different evolutionary stages. In this sense, encouraging children and adolescents to practice any sport instills educational values in the children. On the one hand, it allows the child to socialize with other equals, and on the other hand, it is a guarantee of good health and prevention of obesity