THE ORIGIN OF FOOTBALL

From Homer to the Roman 'Harpastum', from Florentine Football to the English College Football.
...After this Alcinous order Halius and Laodamas to dance by themselves, since no one could compete with them. Polybus, a skilled craftmans, had made them a beautiful purple ball, which they took in their hands, and one of them, bending right back, would throw it up towards the shadowy clouds, and the other, leaping up from the ground, would catch it skilfully before his feet touched earth again. After showing their skill at this high play, they began tossing the ball quickly to and fro as they moved in their dance on the bountiful earth, while the other youths stood at the ringside beating time, till the air was filled with sound...

SOME TIPS

Football is a game of time and space
Johan Cruyff
I don't know if my kid is going to be a football player or not. The only thing I know is that he sleeps with the ball. He takes the ball to bed, he takes the ball to school. Sometimes he forgets a book, but he never forgets the ball. If you are not in love with the game, how can you choose this life for the next 10 or 15 years?
Jose' Mourinho

DID YOU KNOW ?
An individual footballer spends considerably more time during a match without the ball than with it. So the most important question is: what do you do when you do not have the ball? In 1986, in the World Cup Final, Diego Maradona had the ball for one minute, 38 seconds, and in the 1994 Final, Romario had the ball for a mere 53 seconds.