david beckham taking one of his best free kick in Madrid's color
Football, soccer or anything you call it, it is still rated as the most popular sports in the whole wide world. Started on mid 19th century, football has gone through countless changes. From the ball used in the pitch to the material used in the jersey, from the number used by player to the rules of the game, from the stadium capacity to the broadcasting unit in a game. These changes made the beautiful games looks even better. Today post is to differentiate old football and the newer version of football.
Back then, the ball used in the pitch is just a rubber ball with a massive bouncy force. Later, the rubber ball was added with leather coating to improve its accuracy and to avoid wild bouncy ball. Nowadays, the ball had gone through series of improvement and taking Adidas Jabulani, the ball used in recent World Cup is the most high technology ball ever created. It increased the percentage of accuracy and the curl of the ball whenever the player hits it. The extra curl is because of the rough surface of the ball and increase the frictional when the ball colliding with players boot. Goalkeeper always complained about this ball because they always get tricked by the movement of the ball and make them work twice as hard.
cross section of the Adidas Jabulani
The jerseys and numbering are also gone through some serious adjustment. For instant, old football, players wear number on their back only from 1 until 11, without any sponsorship logos, or the player name on the back. Today's football jersey, the player can choose whatever number the want with two sponsor logos on the front or the back of their jersey. One more thing, today's jersey is not a simple polyester-sweat absorbing jersey. For example, Nike come out with a cutting edge technology for football jersey. It was made 20% of recycled plastic bottle to make the jersey lighter and to reduce the wind resistance while the players are running. Secondly, its Dri-Fit technology preventing the sweat from drenching the whole kit. Thus, the player will enjoy 90 minutes of total football without heavy kit problem.
9 new design for 9 competing nation on previous World Cup
Brazil's Jersey inside a plastic bottle
Manchester United FC 1960s football jersey
beckham's mesmerizing dribble and humiliating penalty miss
beckham's mesmerizing dribble and humiliating penalty miss
