Chapter 180 Football Nation
Vienna.
Danube Food Industrial Park.
The construction site is full of workers working on it, and two hardened roads extending from the park to the main city of Vienna and the port are being built.
"Today, everyone will try to finish the last fifty meters of repairs, and then you can go to rest." The supervisor said to the workers as he looked at the getting dark sky.
When the workers who had been busy for a day heard that it was finally coming to an end, they inadvertently started to speed up the construction in order to have a hot meal early.
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In East Africa.
Nairobi City, Ontario Village.
"Figo, pass the ball over quickly." Mars shouted to his teammates.
Hearing the shout, Figo turned around and kicked a leather football behind him.
“Go on!”
I saw a strong figure coming quickly towards the football. Mars stopped the rolling football with his feet and led towards the unguarded right side. The ball races towards the opposite side.
"Damn it, stop him quickly." Antonio roared at the team members.
The three members of the Jacob Village team hurriedly returned to the empty area behind.
However, it was too late. As if Mars was in a deserted place, he deceived the three people who came to intercept him behind him with a fake move.
He did not forget to turn around and shout at the three of them: "Goodbye, little cuties!"
As he said that, he took the ball and rushed towards the local goal.
The goalkeeper looked at Mars coming toward him and had already begun to predict the direction of Mars' shot.
The other players from Jacob's Village were unable to respond in time and could only watch as Mars attacked his own goal alone.
Mars made an emergency stop and made a smooth transition. At this time, the football was hanging in the air according to its inertia. Mars found the right direction, jumped up, and fired a volley towards the right side of the goal.
Everyone on and off the court held their breath to see if the ball would succeed.
In a blink of an eye, the football was already heading towards the goal. The moment Mars kicked the ball, Soles, the goalkeeper of Jacobs Village, rushed towards the right side of the goal and saw the football hit hard. The ground hit Soles' arms.
“Yeah!” Mars roared with gritted teeth as he looked at the intercepted football.
“Another failed shot. This is Mars’ third shot today. Unfortunately, he was not very lucky and was blocked by Soles.” commented a villager from the village of Andalo. .
"I think this ball is very good, with almost no mistakes, and it also goes towards the goal without going out of bounds. The main problem is that the weather has been relatively humid recently. The ball is sewn with boar skin and absorbs a lot of moisture, so It looks cumbersome, which is why Mars' shot cannot pose a threat to Soles," another villager said.
"That's true. This ball has not been taken out to dry in the sun recently. I estimate it is at least one-third heavier than a month ago. If it had been left to dry in the sun before, it would have flown faster at least. , it was too late for the goalkeeper to defend."
Men, women and children from Ontario Village and Jacobs Village came to watch the game, and almost everyone could say something about football. As the largest sport in the East African colonies, football was popular in almost every village.
During leisure time, playing an exciting football match is a rare enjoyment for East Africans who lack entertainment activities. Therefore, football has almost become a national sport in East Africa.
The reason why East Africa has popularized football is that it has unique conditions. The most important thing in East Africa is land. There are many open spaces. The grass is very suitable for playing football. The soft soil can effectively prevent injuries.
And the football goal and football are very easy to solve. The goal can be replaced by stones or two lines, while East African football is made of various animal skins and soft fillings.
There are quite a lot of animal skins in East Africa, and there are a wide variety of them. They are selfless contributions of grassland animals. Many of them are also sold to Europe by East African colonies. The best lion skins and crocodile skins are in It is very popular in Europe and the price and profit are also very high.
Furthermore, as a team sport, football is quite competitive, highly confrontational, and highly entertaining. Especially in East Africa, the football rules are quite imperfect and there is no unified standard, resulting in a lot of room for players to play freely. Many players have Your own exclusive tips.
There are all kinds of fancy kicking methods, which have created many classic kicking methods that are talked about. If East African football matches were placed in Europe, it would not be surprising to see hundreds of mistakes in one game.
However, the current rules of East African football are basically no rules, and its entertainment significance is far greater than competition.
After all, the villagers just want to have fun. As long as they don't use force, they can hold the ball in their hands and kick it as they want.
There are not many restrictions on the number of players on the field. As long as the two sides are equal, the two sides can theoretically have a hundred-man battle.
In East Africa, almost every region has its own set of football rules, which are the result of everyone's agreement.
With such a chaotic football order, each village plays its own game. If neighboring villages want to have a friendly match, they have to temporarily formulate a set of rules that everyone can accept before the game.
Of course, a very small number of European immigrants have been exposed to regular football, but the number is very limited. After all, most immigrants come from rural areas, and football is only relatively popular in the UK now. In this era, not many civilians can pay attention to sports.
So the popularity of East African football is indispensable without the promotion of Ernst. Ernst has always attached great importance to the time arrangement of East African immigrants, that is, not to let them be too busy, but to find more things for them to do.
Football is very suitable for promotion. Anyway, the materials and venues are ready-made. Just let each region hold a few games at a fixed time every week.
With more exposure, immigrants gradually began to enjoy this sport at other times and would spontaneously play football in their free time.
And it is the kind where men, women and children participate. The immigrants from East Africa are generally relatively young, and the older ones are not much older.
Children in the compulsory education stage will receive football education in schools. There are quite a lot of physical education classes in East Africa, because textbooks, teaching materials, teaching aids, etc. all cost money. Children in East Africa do not learn many knowledge points, so some local schools almost One-third of the courses are physical education, which has become the easiest course to popularize.
Compared to boring activities such as running and long jump, football is obviously more popular among children.
As the whistle blows.
The friendly match between Ontario Village and Jacobs Village ended. In the end, Ontario Village won the game with a slight advantage of 6 to 5. According to local rules, the two sides shook hands and said goodbye.
"Soles, you have to be careful next time. I am not in good condition today. I will kick three goals in the next game." Mars said, holding Soles' hand. .
"Haha, I'll wait and see next time." Soles chuckled.
"You kid!" Mars gave Solace a slap on the shoulder, and then both of them laughed.
(End of this chapter)