The Essay Football is the worlds most popular sport. In every four years the world cup is held and every year regional cups are held. Rules are update and followed by FIFA(Federal International Football Association. The game needs good teamwork and skills with a standard size 5 ball. The goal ist o get the ball in the oponents goal and defend your own. Players are allowed to use any part of the body exept arms. When the ball crosses the order of the pitch the ball is given to the team that asnt the last one to touch the ball. A goal is counted when the 2/3 of the ball cosses the white line between the two goal posts. The game is played with 11 men On a side and 2 teams. The field is a rectangle with a boxy gate called a goal in the middle of the shorter lines. Both teams are allowed one player to play with any part of the body in the box surrounding their goal on their side of the pitch. That player is called a goalkeeper and often hei s also the captain. There are also
It is estimated that almost 300 million people around the world are playing football today. Football “isn’t a matter of life and death. It’s more important than that.” There is much that could be said about ice hockey. The first game was played by British soldiers in Canada in the 1850s. In 1875, James Creighton drew up the rules and hosted the first indoor ice hockey match. It is believed that the game was based on the English game of field hockey, the Irish game of hurling (brutal field hockey), the Scottish game of shinty and the Native American game of lacrosse. Boxing may be the oldest sport, but it has always been a brutal one. Kicking, biting and hitting a man while down were an unfortunate part of boxing until, in 1743, the Brits laid down the first set of rules that provided for padded gloves, 3-minute rounds with rests, and the 10-second knockout rule. Most importantly, it prevented
Irish Sports Hurling Gaelic Football Another popular sports in Ireland Hurling Hurling rules 15 players Not allowed to go more than 4 steps ball in hand. Not allowed to throw the hurley. Not allowed to throw the ball. In equipment must be sliotar (ball), hurley(stick), helmet. Gaelic Football Gaelic football is a sport played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score points by passing the ball through the other team's goals, a set of two upright posts separated by a crossbar 2.5 metres (8
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centers of social life. Visiting in the home takes place during holidays, especially between Christmas and New Year's Day, which is also the time when young people living abroad usually come home to visit. Parties are also popular during holidays. Recreation The Irish are sports-oriented, and most weekends include some sporting activities for the family or the individual. Popular sports include the two national pastimes: Gaelic football and hurling, both strictly amateur sports. The women's version of hurling is called camogie. Hurling, a fast and skillful game, is played on a soccer-type field with wooden sticks and a small leather ball. Gaelic football is played with a round ball; its rules are similar to soccer, but players can touch the ball with their hands, although they cannot pick it up from the ground. The ball is punched, not thrown, and it can be kicked.
Topic Sports Tallinn English College 8b form 2007 1. Introduction For some people sport plays a very important part in their lives. And to some, it is even a way of life. There are different kinds of sports. For instance, there are sports meant for playing indoors, some can be practised only at a certain time of year. There are winter and summer sports also. Skiing, figure-skating, sledding and snowboarding these four most popular are practised during winter. Good examples of summer sports are: swimming, badminton, roller skating and golf. 2. The ancient Olympic Games The first recorded Olympic Games took place in 776. B.C. at Olympia but the city may have functioned as a meeting place for worship and other political practices many years earlier. The city is located in western Greece. The games were held every four years. It is also presumed that such competitions pleased the spirits of the dead and were organized as part of
Sepak takraw Introduction Sepak takraw or kick volleyball, is a sport native to Southeast Asia. Sepak takraw differs from the similar sport of volleyball in its use of a rattan ball and only allowing players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball. History The game was first played in the 15th century‘s Malacca Sultanate. Sepak takraw spread to Indonesia from nearby Malacca as early as 16th century. From there the Malay people spread across archipelago and introduced the game in Sulawesi. There the game developed further and became Buginese traditional game which is called "Raga”. Some men playing "Raga" encircling within a group, the ball is passed from one to another and the man who kicked the ball highest is the winner. The modern version of sepak takraw began taking shape in Thailand during the e
Lehesalu Andres AT112 Lacrosse Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding such as shoulder pads, gloves, helmets, elbow pads, and sometimes even rib guards History Lacrosse, a relatively popular team sport in the Americas, may have developed as early as AD 1100. By the seventeenth century it was well- established and had been documented by Jesuit priests, although the game has undergone many modifications since that time. In the traditional aboriginal Canadian version, each team consisted of about 100 to 1,000 men on a field that stretched from about 500 meters to 3 kilometers long. These lacrosse games lasted from sunup to sundown for two to three days straight. These games were played as part of ceremonial ritual to give thanks to the maste
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