Sports is a crucial and imminent part of the nation's growth and development. Its equally important for an individual to get involved in any kind of sport. It not only helps you in maintaining a fitness associated regime of life but also helps in enhancing one's social, physical and emotional personality. It is very necessary to participate and engage in any kind of sport so that one gains various skills, experience and confidence.
Sport is an important social phenomenon in all levels of modern society, providing a large impact on key areas of social life.
Sports helps in improving an individual's physical and mental health. The foremost benefit of getting involved in sports is to boost our internal energy.
Sports also helps us in getting inculcated in healthy and competitive environment which inturn makes us active and fit. Outdoor sports such as badminton, soccer, cricket, tennis, etc keeps our body and mind active and fit always and hence very less chances of inviting health related diseases. Squash, table tennis, etc indoor games helps increasing concentration and immune system of the body. Thus body is energized enough to fight against any illness.
Popularity of having healthy physique and healthy lifestyle has played an important role in motivation of sports culture in the society. The awareness of getting indulged in sports is not only the younger generations but also among elderly people.
Another significant function of sport is communicative function, which helps in enriching personality in the communication process. Aspect of communication in sports lies in those relations in which the athlete comes from society and its institutions, with the coaches, other athletes and sports fans.Communicative function also includes aspects of the prestige associated with the desire to self-affirmation and recognition, helps to bring-up children and teenagers, as a natural means of isolating youth from the harmful influence of the street. Experience clearly shows that sport is one of the most effective means of re-education, providing opportunities for the realization of energy, initiative, creativity and physical abilities, for leadership and competition in a healthy manner.
The role of sport in modern society is a continuous social experiment where a person shows its potential and its expansion, accumulating and improving human capital.
Sports, by performing developmental, educational, patriotic, communicative function, integrates and coordinates individuals and social groups, helps the nation to develop.The sport system is directly connected with the subsystems of health, science, culture, upbringing and education. Sport has a significant impact on the socio-economic and political processes of any modern society.