FOOTBALL Plamen Nikolov 8th grade FOOTBALL How everything started? What is Football? Rules Football – Before and Now Football Legends My Favorite Club My opinion on Football How everything started? The Ancient Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games, some of which involved the use of the feet. A Chinese game called Cuju, Tsu' Chu, or Zuqiu has been recognised by FIFA as the first version of the game with regular rules.It existed during the second and third centuries BC. Chinese kids playing Cuju What is Football? Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a ball. 1 team has 11 players, sorted in a formation. There are 2 types of teams: National (Brazil, Germany and others) and a Club (Barcelona, Real Madrid and others). In a national team the players represent their nationality. In a Club the nationality of the player doesn’t matter. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. Bulgarian national team in 1994 Rules The aim of football is to score more goals then your opponent in a 90 minute playing time frame. The match is split up into two halves of 45 minutes. After the first 45 minutes players will take a 15 minute rest period called half time. The second 45 minutes will resume and any time deemed fit to be added on by the referee will be accordingly. Football – Before and Now So much thing have changed in football. For example the kits. They used to be boring. Nowadays every team changes something in the kits every season The wages, ticket prices and transfers. Big differcences. The best footballer then got 264 pounds a week. Now the non-talanted useless footballers in big leagues get like 50000 pounds Evolution of the Chelsea kit Football Legends There are so much football legends. Most remarkable are: Pelé Eusébio Ronaldinho Ronaldo Diego Maradona Cristiano Ronaldo Lionel Messi My Favorite Club My favorite football club is Chelsea FC. Their stadium is in London. They are now playing in The Premier League Chelsea are my favorite club, because the first football shirt I got was of a former Chelsea Player Fernando Torres. I started to copy his play style, but then he left Chelsea Fernando Torres and Chelsea Winning The Champions League My opinion on Football I think football is a good game. To watch or to play I still think that it’s enjoyable. But now football is all about money. The current record transfer is 198 million pounds. I think in 30 years there will be transfers for 1 billion pounds