PowerPoint Presentation Soccer

Soccer

• History and Rules

Soccer’s Beginnings

• The origin of soccer can be found in every corner of geography and history.
• The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking, and many more played a ball game long before our era.
• The Chinese played "football" games date as far back as 3000 years ago.
• The Ancient Greeks and the Roman used football games to sharpen warriors for battle. In South and Central America a game called "Tlatchi" once flourished.

Ancient Civilizations and Soccer

• Mesoamerican civilizations also devised a game played with rubber balls, which resembled a combination between soccer, basketball and volleyball.
• The game involved two teams, playing in a sort of basin dug below ground level, with baskets strapped in several locations on the side walls.
• The teams would then have to kick the ball towards these baskets, and score a goal.

Soccer in Europe

• As we go forward on the history of soccer timeline, we notice that the game has gradually entered European territory, Europe being the place where modern day soccer will start in several centuries.
• Middle age soccer is covered in a combination of myth and historical facts.
• One popular form of the game (Mob soccer) involved entire villages or towns and was rather chaotic.

History Continued

• The game was violent in nature and I assume there were plenty occasions where the after-church Choule match ended up with another trip to the church to confess some violent sins.
• In England, the game was surrounded by an aura of violence and was considered a dangerous and sinful game. As such, it was banned in 1314 by Nicholas de Farndone, the Mayor of London.

The Rules of Soccer

• There are 11 players for each team.
• All players wear shin guards to in order to protect their shins.
• The goalkeeper is the only player who can get the ball with his hands.

The Soccer Field

Penalty kick

• Penalty Kick is when a player commits any foul within his own Penalty box.

Corner kick

• Corner kick is when the ball goes out of bounds over the end line and was last touched by the defending team.

Cards

• Yellow card: indicates caution.
• A player who receives 2 Yellow Cards is given a Red Card.

• Red card: the player must leave the field and he can’t play the next game.

Slide Tackle

• When a defender slides on the ground and kick the ball away from the player.

The Players

• A. goalkeeper B. left fullback C. right fullback D. center back E. left back F. right back G. left midfield H. right midfield I. left forward J. center forward K. right forward