Discussion & reading activity
A ragball is a ball made up of old rags that kids
use to play with
when they don’t have a leather football.
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What do you know about the
origins of soccer/ football?
Read the following text and
discuss the main ideas.
Whatever
is at hand: rag, a sock, a piece of tire or plastic bag can become a soccer
ball. Playing fields of sand, gravel, cement or grass will do too. Millions
of young people around the globe play soccer with homemade balls, kicking and chasing them for
the sheer pleasure of playing.
It
is nothing new. Footballs have gone through dramatic changes. During medieval
times they were normally made of leather. Another method was using animal
bladders or stomachs. Only in the 19th century footballs developed into what they
look like today with the introduction of rubber and discoveries made by
Charles Goodyear.
About
the sport itself and according to FIFA, a Chinese game is the earliest form
of football for which there is evidence. It was remarkably similar to its modern
version. Japanese history also mentions a game like soccer being played in
Kyoto about 611 A.D. and Greeks as well as Romans played a type of soccer
game.
What
is sure is that wherever you go, in any continent, if you step into any
field, park or vacant lot carrying a football with you, most probably you
will soon have company to improvise a match.
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