The document provides a brief history of football (soccer), tracing its origins back to ancient civilizations like the Aztecs and Chinese. It highlights notable players such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, along with their achievements, and mentions FIFA and UEFA as governing bodies of the sport. Additionally, it describes essential football gear like cleats, shinguards, and shinsocks.
The document provides a brief history of football (soccer), tracing its origins back to ancient civilizations like the Aztecs and Chinese. It highlights notable players such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, along with their achievements, and mentions FIFA and UEFA as governing bodies of the sport. Additionally, it describes essential football gear like cleats, shinguards, and shinsocks.
The document provides a brief history of football (soccer), tracing its origins back to ancient civilizations like the Aztecs and Chinese. It highlights notable players such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, along with their achievements, and mentions FIFA and UEFA as governing bodies of the sport. Additionally, it describes essential football gear like cleats, shinguards, and shinsocks.
The document provides a brief history of football (soccer), tracing its origins back to ancient civilizations like the Aztecs and Chinese. It highlights notable players such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, along with their achievements, and mentions FIFA and UEFA as governing bodies of the sport. Additionally, it describes essential football gear like cleats, shinguards, and shinsocks.
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Football (Soccer)
The Beautiful Game
Corner Kick
Goal Kick
Throw In Around 2,000 years ago, an ancient Mesoamerican civilization called “The Aztecs” played a game similar to football called “Tchatali” in which the objective was to kick the ball through a stone hoop without using their hands. The losing team’s captain will be sacrificed to the deity. In around 206 BC, the chinese played a more similar version of football called “Ts’u Chü (Cuju)” that involved kicking a leather ball stuffed with fur or feathers to keep their military in shape. At the same time, a lot of other ancient cultures like the Greeks, Romans, and Aboriginal Australians were known to play games that involved kicking a ball. Then, it became part of public schools, with every school having different rules. Some Ts’u Chü allowed using the hands, others did not. ● Brazil ● Argentina ● Portugal ● Spain ● Germany ● Italy ● England ● France ● Belgium ● Colombia ● Chile ● The Netherlands ● Egypt ● Uruguay ● Senegal ● Croatia Cristiano Ronaldo Lionel Messi Cristiano Ronaldo was born on February 5, 1985 in Funchal, Portugal. He has won the Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987 in Ballon d’Or 5 times. He plays for Manchester Rosario, Argentina. He has a record breaking 7 United FC. He has never won the World Cup Ballon d’Ors. He plays for Paris Saint- Germain and it is his last one in 2022. He has the world and it is also his last World Cup. He has never record for most goals of all time with a won the World Cup. Messi has 785 goals. He staggering 819 goals in total! also has the record for most records held by a soccer player. Manuel Neuer Manuel Neuer was born on March 27, 1986 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. He is a goalkeeper for FC Bayern München. He has scored 0 goals and 0 Ballon d’Ors. He is captain of FC Bayern München. He is said to be one of the best goalkeepers in football history FIFA® was founded on May 21, 1904 in Rue Saint- Honoré, Paris, France. FIFA ®’s full form is Fédération Internationale de Football Association (French). FIFA is a collection of ®
countries, getting together to play football. It
has 209 members, even more than the United Nations (UN). UEFA® was founded on June 15, 1954 in Basel, Switzerland. UEFA ®’s full form is the Union of European Football. UEFA has mostly european countries. Cleats Cleats are special shoes with little grips on the bottom to stick on the field and not to slip.
Shinguards Shinsocks Shinguards protect your shins from tackles and Shinsocks are worn over the shinguards to kicks cover them, as part of the rules of FIFA. By Yasin, Hammadh, and Aharaz
