Why is football the first sport in the world? Tell you four reasons.

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In today’s single sports events in the world, football is the most popular sport and the craziest one. Why is football called the first sport in the world?

Take the World Cup as an example:

The participating countries of the World Cup are all over the world, and football teams from more than 200 countries compete for the qualification to enter the finals (only 32 teams and 736 players were selected in the final). Every game is full of audiences, and its ratings, broadcasting fees, sponsors, advertising revenue and peripheral products have exceeded the scale of the Olympic Games.

There are at least four reasons why football is called the first sport in the world:

(A) the entry threshold is very low

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Football has very low requirements for venues, equipment and equipment. For example, many world-class stars come from poor areas in South America and Africa, so they can easily participate in this sport in economically backward countries or poor families. In professional football fields, dirt floors and streets, you can have fun as long as there is an open space! I still remember when I was a child, after school, several classmates found an open space and used schoolbags as goals. Several people agreed on the rules and didn’t need referees, so they could have a great time.

(2) The requirements for body shape are not high.

Generally speaking, if a sport wants to be a top athlete, congenital conditions are very important. Although the acquired efforts can make up for some congenital deficiencies, in the fierce sports competition, the actual effect is very limited, so many sports keep many people out for this reason. However, football doesn’t require high body shape. There is a saying in the industry that "if you can’t play football with a sense of accomplishment, never blame yourself for being inferior to others."

In football, tall players have long legs and great strength, and are not easy to be pushed down due to collision. Short players react quickly, which is beneficial to dribbling and shuttling and has the advantage of possession of the ball.

Therefore, in football, becoming a top star requires personal physical fitness, personal skills, personal psychological quality, teamwork, tactical strategy, organizational system and other conditions; Take one’s physical fitness as an example. It requires both speed and endurance, and it requires both footwork and footwork.

(3) Actively participate in all countries, big or small.

Basketball and volleyball, among the three major balls in the world, are usually played by a few fixed countries in international competitions. Football, on the other hand, is different. No matter big or small, strong or weak, rich or poor countries actively participate in international competitions.

For example, the Asian island country Maldives, with a population of less than 300,000, even lost to Iran 0-17 in a World Cup, setting a record for the biggest score gap in an event, but it did not affect the country’s love for this sport at all.

(4) A game that keeps people hopeful forever.

For example, in the World Cup, when team A wins team B and team B wins team C, the logical final result should be that team A wins team C, but the result of football match is not like this, and the reversal of team C winning team A often occurs. In the 2018 World Cup group match, Group F: Mexico wins Germany, Germany wins Sweden, and Sweden wins Mexico; Group H: Japan wins Colombia, Colombia wins Poland, and Poland wins Japan in turn. Therefore, the football match is a game that people will always have hope.

Do you think football is the first sport in the world?

This article is a selected work for the first children’s popular science essay contest in Zhengzhou.

Author: Wu Ailian

Views only represent the author himself, not his position.

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On the same day, the 11th Yao Fund Charity Tournament in 2023 was held in Macau, with China basketball stars playing against international basketball stars.
On September 17th, players from both sides exchanged greetings after the game. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia photo
On September 17, Thomas (middle), a player of the international basketball star team, was in the game. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia photo
On September 17th, China basketball star team player Yuan Shuai (left) was in the game. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia photo
On September 17, Jeremy Lin (middle), a player of the international basketball star team, was in the game. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia photo
On September 17, Jeremy Lin, a player of the international basketball star team, was at the appearance ceremony. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia photo
On September 17th, Zhai Xiaochuan, a player of China Basketball Stars Team, was in the game. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia photo
On September 17th, the guests took a group photo with the participating teams. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia photo
On September 17th, sprinter Su Bingtian was at the event site. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia photo
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Zhang Ziyu won 33 points and missed the championship! Physical examination and technical evaluation are not as good as opponents, so it’s time for Yao Ming to make moves.

Recently, there was a farce in the U17 league of China women’s basketball. The U17 team of Shandong women’s basketball team, which won the final by 33 points, missed the championship, while the U17 team of Zhejiang women’s basketball team, which suffered a crushing defeat, laughed at the championship.

After the game, the reason why the competition won the championship was exposed. Shandong U17 women’s basketball team’s 2 big data are not as good as their opponents, and the gap is a little big. In the big ball game, the champion is always determined by the result of the game. It’s time for Yao Ming and others of the Basketball Association to manage these chaos.

In the U17 national women’s basketball competition, the Shandong women’s basketball team still lost to its opponents, even though it had a big center of 2.27 meters. However, they did not lose to their opponents on the field, but the two indicators were not as good as their opponents. The result of the competition was that Shandong women’s basketball team beat Zhejiang women’s basketball team 96-63.

But the champion belongs to Zhejiang women’s basketball team, and Shandong women’s basketball team comes second. After the game, the reason for the selection was exposed (as shown below). According to the selection method, even if Shandong women’s basketball team wins 100 points, they are also runners-up.

It turned out that the focus of the competition was actually physical examination and technical evaluation. Zhejiang team is the first in these two data (as shown above). This means that before the final, they already know that they are champions. Looking at all the rankings, only Shandong U17 women’s basketball team, Sichuan Women’s Youth Team, Shandong Expressway, Zibo Sports School and Changjun Middle School (Hunan) were detained for physical examination and technical evaluation, and they all fell by one place.

For non-top four teams, ranking is of little significance. But there is a great gap between the champion and the runner-up.

Among the teams whose rankings have been reduced, three are from Shandong, one is from Hunan and one is from Sichuan (pictured above), which makes people think.

However, the Shaanxi team, with the second physical test and the fourth technical evaluation, actually only increased by one place. This also shows that the results of physical examination and technical evaluation have limited influence on the competition. But why is the technical evaluation data of Shandong U17 team extremely low? This statistic is more subjective and difficult to compare than physical measurement.

Many people should still remember that physical tests were conducted in the A-A football league and A-A basketball league more than 20 years ago. Among them, Li Tie, Zheng Bin, Hao Wei and others are the best in physical examination, while Biao Zhai, Cai Sheng and other high-level centers are poor households.

Similarly, in basketball, Zhang Jinsong, Liu Wei, Zhang Wenqi and others can easily pass, while Dan Tao, Yao Ming and others are needy families. Even after Yao Ming went to the NBA, his physical examination was not outstanding, but this did not affect his becoming an international star. At the same time, Li Tie and others with excellent physical fitness did not concentrate on football in the future because of their excellent physical fitness.

Shandong U17 team and Zhang Ziyu must be very depressed this summer. She not only lost the championship, but also lost the China U16 women’s basketball team. The whole Shandong U17 team, only Liu Ketong was selected. On the contrary, three people from Zhejiang team were selected.

However, U16 women’s basketball team was defeated by their peers in Japan and South Korea at home, and even in the match with Samoa, the short center of the other team grabbed the front court rebounds five times in a row. The coach of U16 women’s basketball team once said that Zhang Ziyu was too tall for the team.

PS: It is not easy for old fans in Hubei to write. Please pay attention to old fans in Hubei and praise their works if it is convenient.

Unexpected? Chen Meng takes revenge on Sun Yingsha, but the fans angrily criticize Ma Lin for being partial?

To my surprise! In a fiasco, Chen Meng launched a revenge trip to Sun Yingsha, while the fans strongly condemned Ma Lin’s partiality. In the women’s singles semi-final of WTT Macau Championship in 2023, Guoping experienced two fierce civil wars. First, Manyu Wang defeated Wang Yidi with a score of 4-2, and then Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha with a score of 4-0, which means that Chen Meng will face Manyu Wang in the final. If he can win the championship, it means ending the one-year championship drought. In addition, there are still many fans who point the finger at the head coach Ma Lin and think that she is partial to Chen Meng.

In last week’s Xinxiang Championship, Sun Yingsha, the world’s No.1 table tennis player, swept Chen Meng with an astonishing score of 4-0, followed by her victory over Wang Yidi with a score of 4-1, and successfully won the women’s singles title. Although this is only a draw, it is of great significance to both sides. Observing the recent state fluctuation in Chen Meng, it is widely believed that Sun Yingsha will win the Macau Championship. However, Sun Yingsha’s performance was obviously not as good as before, especially in the face of German veteran Han Ying, who was once on the verge of being eliminated. With 0-2 behind, she pulled three games in a row and completed a big reversal with 3-2. In the end, Sun Yingsha defeated Szocos and extended the winning streak to 24 games. In last week’s Xinxiang Championship, Chen Meng narrowly beat Hayata Hina 3-2 after five sets of hard work, but now he can sweep his opponent 3-0, which shows that his state has been obviously improved. In this issue, we will take a look at the ability and style of this new star in women’s singles in this competition. # Hundreds of teams #

In the first game, Sun Yingsha quickly scored 4 points, but Chen Meng soon found her own strength, chased the points continuously and chased the score to 5-6. Then they started a fierce struggle, and the score kept rising alternately until the score was 14-14, and Chen Meng scored 2 points in a row, and finally led the game with a score of 16-14. In the second game, Sun Yingsha took a 4-2 lead, followed by Chen Meng, who scored 4 points in a row. After that, Chen Meng quickened the pace of the game and won the game with a score of 10-6, but then Sun Yingsha made a mistake, which led Chen Meng to win again with a score of 11-6.

In the third game, Sun Yingsha made a mistake at the beginning. Chen Meng seized the opportunity to start with a high score of 5-1, and then Sun Yingsha launched a counterattack and successfully tied her opponent. Then they launched a fierce struggle until 8-8 draw. At the critical moment, Chen Meng took advantage of the opportunity to attack successfully and scored 3 points in a row, finally winning the game with the score of 11-8. In the fourth game, Chen Meng showed great strength and started with a score of 3-0, but then Sun Yingsha announced that the game would be suspended and resumed. However, Sun Yingsha made another mistake, which led Chen Menglian to score 2 points and lead 5-0. Subsequently, Sun Yingsha launched a counterattack and chased the score to 9-9. At the crucial moment, Chen Meng scored 2 points in a row, sealed the victory with 11-9, and took revenge on Sun Yingsha with a total score of 4-0, and successfully advanced to the final.

Surprisingly, Sun Yingsha defeated Chen Meng with a score of 4-0 in Xinxiang Championship last week. Surprisingly, only one week later, Chen Meng even returned Sun Yingsha with a score of 4-0, which undoubtedly brought great uncertainty to competitive sports. However, many fans have raised doubts about the head coach Ma Lin. Although she has been promoted to the head coach of the women’s team, she has been personally coaching Chen Meng from Singapore to Macau, and Chen Meng and Zhong Jinyong are hardly on the same stage, so many fans have questioned Ma Lin’s behavior of favoring Chen Meng. After Chen Meng defeated Sun Yingsha with a score of 4-0, many fans angrily accused Ma Lin of carrying out targeted training for Chen Meng before the game, which made Ma Lin under great pressure now.

Absolutely! After the coaching change, only seven games were used, and the third line of the ten champions collapsed.

"Changing coaches is like changing knives", I believe many fans have heard such a sentence. However, there are many teams in European football this season whose performance is still sluggish after changing coaches, and Chelsea is one of them.
However, in Germany, Bayern, the king of Nantah who dominated the Bundesliga for 10 years, has now entered the dilemma after changing coaches.
Last night, in the 29th round of Bundesliga, Bayern played Mainz away. It seems that they haven’t got out of the shadow of the Champions League in the middle of the week. In the end, Bayern lost to the opponent 1-3 and suffered two rounds of the league.
As Dortmund beat Frankfurt 4-0 behind him, Bayern once again fell from the top of the Bundesliga standings to the second place.
In addition, Bayern has suffered four consecutive games in various competitions, which is the first time they have suffered four consecutive games since October 2018.
0-3 Manchester City, 1-1 Hoffenheim, 1-1 Manchester City, 1-3 Mainz
Since Bayern replaced the former coach nagel Mann with tuchel, tuchel led the team to play seven games, but the results were not satisfactory.
The results of seven games are: 2 wins, 3 losses and 2 draws. At present, Bayern has been out of the German Cup and Champions League one after another, and the league is also very competitive with Dortmund.
Embarrassed, in the first press conference after tuchel took office as Bayern coach, he made it clear that his goal of leading the team was to help Bayern win the triple crown.
However, after only seven games, the ambition of the Triple Crown is doomed to be a joke.
According to statistics, tuchel lost three games after coaching only seven games, while the former coach nagel Osman lost three games after coaching 37 games. Bayern changed coaches and became lonely?
The three senior officials of Bayern, Heiner, Kahn and Sally, who were watching the game at the scene, also looked embarrassed when they saw Bayern’s present situation.
Looking back at the data of the whole game, although Bayern holds 74% of the ball control rate, it still has no score.
Plus this game, this season’s main center, the team’s top scorer (17 goals) Shubo-Morting missed due to injury, and Bayern finally failed to score.
In fact, after the main center Lewan left the team, Bayern this season has been short of stable scoring players.
According to Romano, Bayern has planned to make major changes this summer, one of which is to introduce a new center.
After Levan left the team, Bayern brought in Liverpool winger Manet, but the latter did not integrate well into the team, and even after losing to Manchester City in the Champions League knockout, he fought with teammate Sanet.
Mane, 31, is likely to be sold this summer in exchange for funds to introduce a new center.
On the other hand, due to the poor performance after the coaching change, Kahn, a senior member of the club, was also told that "he has been abandoned by the board of directors and it is only a matter of time before he is dismissed."
Whether Bayern, which is at home and abroad, can keep the final Bundesliga title this season is still unknown. Will Dortmund tear down the fig leaf of the Ten Champions?

3-1, Chelsea won three consecutive victories! 2 goals are blown, Enzo assists and kovacic volleys.

In the 27th round, there is a strong dialogue, and leicester city plays Chelsea at home! In the 11th minute of the first half, Chilwell volley scored a goal, and then a shot from both sides hit the doorframe. In the 34th minute, Felix’s offside goal was invalidated. In the 39th minute, Dhaka equalized the score with a long-range shot. In injury time, Enzo made an assist, Havertz made an offside shot and scored a goal. In the 75th minute, Moudrek’s offside goal was blown away. In the 77th minute, kovacic volleyed and scored a goal to expand the score, 87.

Leicester city League suffered a three-game losing streak, ranking 15th in the Premier League with 24 points, only 2 points higher than the relegation zone. The former Premier League champions now have to fight for relegation. In the first cycle of the season, leicester city lost to Chelsea 1-2 away! In terms of players, Valdi, Evans and Endidi are substitutes, and the team formation is 4-2-3-1. The starting players are as follows: 1- Ward, 3- Fass, 15- Sutar, 18- Amartey, 21- Ricardo Pereira, 27- Castagne, 10- Madison, 22- Hall and 24.

Chelsea beat Leeds United 1-0 in the last round and won the first victory in nearly six games. By the end of this round, Chelsea had scored 34 points and ranked 10th in the Premier League, 7 points away from the European war zone! In terms of players, Silva was injured, and Puglisi, Gallagher and Chiyeh were substituted. The team discharged a 3-4-3 formation. The starting players were as follows: 1- Kepa, 33- Fofana, 26- coulibaly, 32- Cucurella, 12- Chick, 5- Enzo, 8- Kovacic, 21- Chilville, and 21-Chilville.

In the first half, in the 11th minute, Chilwell made a cross from the right corner. After the teammate ferried, coulibaly took the ball around the baseline and sent it out. Chilwell’s back post volley scored, and Chelsea led 1-0 away! After breaking the gate of his old club, Chilwell also celebrated in front of the old fans in response to the boos of the fans at the Kingship Stadium!

In 13 minutes, Amartey grabbed a header in front of the door and missed the bottom line; In 19 minutes, kovacic broke the ball straight, and Havertz’s shot was blocked by the defender; In 24 minutes, Havertz sent a top pass in the midfield, and Felix made a single-handed breakthrough and hit the post with a volley. In 26 minutes, Hall took a long shot and hit the doorframe after the ball was on the sideline.

In the 34th minute, Chelsea played smoothly, and Moudrek retreated to catch the ball. Chick made a cross on the right, and Felix outflanked and pushed the goal, but the referee decided that Felix was offside and the goal was invalid. In the 39th minute, Felix played with fire in the backcourt. leicester city broke the ball in the frontcourt and organized a counterattack on the spot. Dhaka took the ball outside the restricted area and suddenly scored a goal, 1-1, and the score was even!

In 41 minutes, Madison shot from a small angle in the restricted area, and Kepa flew to save the yellow ball with one hand; In 42 minutes, the Chelsea defender made a mistake, and Ishi Na Qiao’s powerful shot was saved by Kepa again. In 44 minutes, Madison hit the wall with a free kick; In the 50 th minute of injury time, Enzo sent an overhead pass outside the restricted area, and Havertz crossed the offside and inserted a clever cushion to score a goal, 1-2, and Chelsea took the lead again! It is worth mentioning that this is the first time since 2023 that Chelsea scored 2 goals in a single game in the Premier League.

In the second half, Gallagher came off the bench and replaced Felix; In 46 minutes, Chelsea crossed the right corner and Fofana’s header in front of the goal was magically solved by the goalkeeper! In 49 minutes, Moudrek was treated by his opponent’s ankle, and then he returned to the field! In the 55th minute, Kepa was hit by Ishi Na Qiao when saving. After the team doctor came in for treatment, Kepa re-entered the game!

In 63 minutes, Haftz’s right foot shot higher than the crossbar; In 65 minutes, leicester city crossed the corner, Kepa hit the ball not far, and the leicester city player outside the restricted area shot hard, and Gallagher on the goal line cleared the ball; In 72 minutes, Puglisi Qi and Chaloba came off the bench; In the 75th minute, Enzo sent a direct cross from the midfield, and Moudrek rushed into the penalty area with a single knife and scored against the goalkeeper. However, Moudrek was offside a little, and the goal was invalid. This was the second goal that Chelsea was blown off because of offside.

In the 77th minute, Chelsea quickly broke into the frontcourt, Havertz made a cross from the right side of the restricted area, Moudrek headed the ferry to assist, kovacic followed up and volleyed the ball into the court. The goal was valid, and Chelsea expanded the score 3-1!

In 87 minutes, Fass got the second yellow card in this game, 2 yellow changed to 1 red and left;

At the end of the game, Chelsea won three games in a row, defeated leicester city 3-1 away, and leicester city suffered a five-game losing streak!