The endless fascination of football

The Football World Cup is concluded and once again it was the most watched show in the world along with the Summer Olympics. The reasons for the success of this sport continue to be always the same. It’s an easy sport to understand that anyone can practice and which is played everywhere, on the beach as in a park, on a street or in any open space or courtyard. It’s played at all ages from 5 years old children as well as adults, scoring just two goals with a shirt, a backpack or a stone, and the space between these two goals immediately becomes the playing field. The other team sports to be played require more technical skills and a minimum of structure as the net for volleyball or hoops in basketball. In football it does not, just that one player have the ball and immediately the game starts . These are the reasons why football has become a universal game, because all the male children have played football and when they are adults all are coaches in the Monday morning discussing with friends. All children have played at least 20-30-40 or maybe more football  and this knowledge of the game,  they believe make theim competent assessing whether a team has played well or badly. Football in the past 15 years became diffuse also among the girls and in many countries from northern Europe to north America and Japan is really widespread. These are in my opinion the reasons why soccer will continue to fascinate all for many years.