The football

THE FOOTBALLHi guys! I’m the trainer of a small football club of IES Valle del Cidacos that consists

of Claudia Arenzana, Marina Sota, Carla

Rangel and Natalia HernándezThey are going to explain you something

about this sport and they are going to show you their opinions about it.

In the Ancient Greek they started to balancing the ball with their feet. Can be it the beginning of this sport?We say that the beginning of football took place in Montevideo, Uruguay, the 14th May 1899.

We think that the football was an important discovery because , in our opinion, is the most interesting sport. There are a lot of clubs and players. In fact , in our opinion, in Spain we have got the two best teams in the world, Real Madrid and F.C Barcelona, and there are many important players like Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid C.F) and Lionel Messi (F.C Barcelona), among others.

Do you think the same?

Real Madrid’s badge

F.C Barcelona’s badge

¿Do you know the origin of this sport? How many teams are there now?

The football needs a football pitch,

players and a ball.

The ball is one of the most important elements of football because without ball we can’t play.The ball is usually made up of leather or something like that with a perimeter of 68 to 70 cm (the diameter is between 21.65 and 22.29 cm). Its mass varies from 410 to 450 g.

The football teams are formed for 10 players, 1 goalie and 6 substitute players. The players can have different positions:-Forward player: responsible for scoring the goalMidfield player: defended and gets balls -Defensive player: prevents the opponents goal mark-Goalie: responsive for defense the post

We think that the football is the easiest sport to play. Because you only need a ball, some space and players, 3,4,5… It is the most played sport, in the schools, in the street… We also think that is the sport which you see in TV more. For that the football has got more followers than other sports.

The length of a football pitch is usually between 90 and 120 meters long, and its, between 45 and 90 meters wide.

16,5 m

45-90 m

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20 m

9,15 m

We think that football has got a lot of good things.

The players that earn a lot of many they use it to help poor

people.

Join us.

It teaches us things like the teamwork, the effort, the respect for others...

But there are bad things too. Many people when they are watching a football

match they get crazy and act like animals.

We hit and even we kill other people.

Insult us.

Cristiano pagará la operación de

bebé con trastorno cerebral

(13-04-14) buendiario.com

Muere un hincha al ser golpeado por

un retrete lanzado desde las gradas.

(03-05-14) Larioja.com

Tiran un plátano a Dani Alves y éste se lo come

(28/04/2014) mundodeportiv

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Cuatro aficionados del Nápoles heridos por disparos antes de la final de la Copa de Italia (03-05-14) elconfidencial.com

Buen rollo" en Lisboa entre los

hinchas del Real Madrid y del

Atlético de Madrid (24-05-2014)

euro sport

Rosell pagó 95 millones por el jugador Neymar y no los 57 que dijo (20-1-2014) Elmundo

There many people hungry and it isn’t good that in football waste a lot of

money.

The other aspects of football

• 1º- When did you start to play football?• I started to play football when I was five years old.• 2º- What was your first football team? My first team was the “peña calagurritana”, but my

first semi-professional team was the C.D.Calahorra when I was sixteen.• 3º- How many football teams have you played? I have played in three different teams,

C.D.Calahorra, U.D.Logroñes and nowadays I’m playing in Racing of Santander.• 4º- In your free time, Do you play any different sport? I can’t do other sports because when

you are professional, you sign a contract that forbids you to practice sports.• 5º- In your opinion, Who is the best coach that you have had? Each coach taught me many

skills and knowledges about football. So It’s really difficult to choose one.• 6º- In which position do you play? Sometimes I play as left back and other times I play as left

midfielder.• 7º- Do you usually play in that position? Nowadays I play in that position, but when I was

young I played as forward.• 8º-What is your favourite football team? My favourite team is Real Madrid.• 9º- Who is your favourite football player? Ronaldo and Ronaldinho are the best footballers

that I have seen. At this moment I like Iniesta because he is the best Spanish player.• 10º- How many days do you train in a week? I train five days a week, but also I play the

match at the weekend.• 11º- How is your training day? I get up at half past eight. I have breakfast and then I go to

the training field at half past nine. The train starts at half past ten and it goes on two hours.• 12º- Have you got any obsession the match day? I usually listen to music.• 13º- Do you take care your diet? Yes, I eat vegetables, rice, pasta, chicken… Food without

fats.• 14º- What do you eat before the match? I always eat pasta and chicken.• 15º- When is your next match? This Sunday we are going to play in Santander against

Llagostera, in order to be the champion of the 2B league.• 16º- What objectives do you want to achieve? Now I would like to be promoted with Racing

of Santander and play next season in second division.• 17º- Have you had any injuries? Fortunately I haven't had serious injuries.

Well, after to do this interview the Racing has risen to 2ª division. Congratulations!

My cousin is 25 years and since he was 5 years plays football. He has played in

many teams and now he’s in the Racing of Santander. Besides of playing he has studied to work when he

doesn’t play football.

This is an interview to my cousin, Iñaki Saenz, that is playing in the football team, Racing of Santander.

The locomotor system is formed by the bones and the muscles. All bones form the skeleton. The contact zones between the bones are called joints, for example ankle, knee, shoulder, hip, elbow… The bones are joined together by the ligaments, which are strong cords, elastic and very resistant. Muscles contract and relax to allow movement. Muscles are joined to the bones by some resistant cords called tendons.The most common football injuries are:sprains: excessive stretching of the ligamentsfractures: broken bonestorn ligamentsdislocation: the bones go out from the jointshematomas ...

The lesions can’t be avoided in the sport. But we think that many lesions occur because the players play very hard and they forget that is a sport. We are surprised because the players will heal faster of lesions. We think that this is because they have a good fitness.

Ankle sprain Messi

Fracture of tibia and fibula

Torn cruciate ligament

Dislocated elbow Carles Puyol

Hematoma in the foot

When we play football we can

hurt ouselves. It’s painful!

Firstly we stretch our muscles

We do warm-up exercise

Some days we play short matchesWe do different exercises with the ballEveryday we run for ten minutes We finish the training stretching our muscles again

Now I’m going to show you a real

training.

We think that is necessary to do a good training for avoid possible lesions. Also we should to follow a balanced diet. Because if we don’t eat well we will have more lesions. In fact, it is necessary for all sports. My cousin says that before a match the meal should be rich in carbohydrates and they have to eat 3 hours before the match. In fact my cousin always eats the same before a match, pasta, a chicken steak and fruit or a yogurt and drinks a lot of water. That boring!

The woman in the football.

From the 1935, women began to participate in this sport, and every time being given more importance. The female football has the same rules that the male football. In Spain there is a female team, too. The only difference is that is not as famous as the male team, like in other many sports. We think that is not fair because they can be as good as the men. In addition, the female football's matches you can’t watch them in TV.In our opinion in the football world there are a lot of maleness. Girls that are referees are treated in a different way than boys. They are more insulted and some people believe that they know less than a boy. But we think that girls can do it as well as boys.

Well, now we’re going to have fun playing and explaining some

football’s rules.

Claudia Arenzana

Marina SotaCarla Rangel

Natalia Hernández

Bye ,bye! We hope you

liked our comments.

Good luck for Spain

in the World Cup!