First soccer ball
South American Indians were known to use a light elasticized ball. However; rubber was not to be practically manufactured until a few thousand years later.early balls ranged from human heads, stitched up cloth, animal and human skulls to pig or cow bladders. Han Dynasties (255 BC-220 AD), the Chinese played 'tsu chu', in which animal-skin balls were dribbled through gaps in a net stretched between two poles. Certain ancient Egyptian rites are said by historians to have similarities with football, and both the ancient Greeks and Romans also played a game that entailed carrying and kicking a ball.
goals
The precise dimensions of the playing field were not recorded but under the FA rules of the the time it could had been anything up to 100 yards wide by 200 yards long, considerably bigger than modern day football pitches is between 100 yards and 50 yards long). There would be no white lines on the turf, only flags marking the boundary. Two flimsy goalpost would had stood at each end of the the pitch 24 feet apart and with tape strung between them about 8 feet above the ground.
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The first soccer played in 1860s England didn't include matching uniforms but a mix of heavy fabrics and colors supplied by players. Only caps with matching colors identified players on the same team.
By the 1970s, players were wearing comfortable and colorful uniforms that helped show off the game. Real Madrid was the first club to offer replica jerseys to its fans, and Bayern Munich took the lead in putting sponsors on its jerseys. |