In today's higher education institutions, sports education is increasingly more holistic and aims at the development of students; however, undergraduate sports curricula continues rely on the traditional form instead of on a model of total nurturing value that can emerge through participation in sports programs. Soccer, as an internationally popular and competitive sport, has not be curated as have other sports through the exploration of college education, in terms of its utility for physical training, mental conditioning, and teamwork. College students today are experiencing, as part of their pursuits, a state of diminishing physical fitness and devitalized social processes, and soccer, with its high intensity competition and sense of collective direction, represents a multi-faceted modality of intervention. The reform of sport in colleges ought to re-consider the place of soccer and engage it in a fashion that transition's hockey's educational approach from outcome driven teach/extensions to a critical quality cultivation position relevant to the institutional discourse around students confronting competitive interactions later in life. The paper explores the non-traditional educational functions of soccer and hopefully provides an exciting avenue for educators to re-consider sport ecology in post-secondary institutions.

Aihemaitijiang Aimaiti. The Role of Soccer in College Physical Education Teaching and Training. Frontiers in Sport Research (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 3: 6-11. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSR.2025.070302.

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