"Felipão": brazilian coach under pressure!

Soccer is still the national sport in Brazil. But there were many people that contributed for soccer development. Let´s know something about them?

There are rumours that researchers found on archeological sites something like a soccer ball
in the ancient China, on 2.500 b.C. (before Christ), made with animal skin in a kind of sport called "tsu-chou".

In México and Central América - between 600 a.C. a 1600 a.C. (after Christ) was probably created the rubber ball. People played this ancient games in fields as "L" alphabetic letter, kicking the ball over wood or iron rings put on high places.

In England, some tales tells that the barbarians played something like football… with enemies heads! And that was around 12th century that apppeared something that seems the modern soccer. Only in 1863 appeared the formal rules of the game.

On USA, in 1600 a.C, American natives played a game called "pasuckuakohowog" (wow!), that means: "they must play with the feet". The field was enormous, and almost a thousand people plays. There was a very violent game, and in the end there were a lot of Indians with broken legs…

In Brazil, soccer was officially introduced on 1894, by Charles Miller, that brought two official leather balls and uniforms. There are news too that in 1874 english sailors played ball on the beach, in Rio de Janeiro…Actuallly soccer is the most played sport in Brazil… and we expect that soon we will be World Champions again!!!

Luiz Felipe, the "Felipão", brazilian coach, under 190 million of eys, is probably now remembering now that old barbarian games...

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