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Football commercialization
Initially, football was designed more for that. to become a form of free pastime, rather than a professional occupation. The young people who founded the English Football Association did not at all strive to professionalize the game and did not want such a fate for their offspring. Continue reading
Calcio Fiorentino – historical football for real men
Many fans criticize modern football for the fact that it has evolved from the sport of real men to the competition of cherished millionaires, who fall and writhe from the pain of any adversary touching them, or even without him. However, there are more brutal versions of this game in the world, for example, the historic Florentine Calcio (Calcio Fiorentino). Continue reading
The story of how a soccer ball fell to Earth from space and came back
In 1986, the Challenger shuttle exploded 73 seconds after the flight began, thus ending the lives of seven members of the NASA team. The ship scattered into 14 tons of debris that could be found – they all scattered across the ocean’s water surface, and a special search team was forced to search for the remains of the crew’s bodies among them. Continue reading
