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PART I

ART

CHAPTER I

PAGES 23, 24 AND 25

FOOTBALL HISTORY

HISTORIANS, IN THE SEARCH FOR THE ORIGIN OF SOCCER, MENTION BAMBOO BALL GAMES IN WHICH FEET AND HANDS WERE USED SINCE FIVE THOUSAND YEARS B.C., IN CHINA AND 4500 B.C. C., IN JAPAN, THEREFORE MORE THAN SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO.

DURING THE REIGN OF YANGTZE (HE IS CREDITED WITH THE INVENTION OF FOOTBALL), AROUND 2500 BC. C., 8 (EIGHT) PLAYERS PLAYED GAMES ON A 14 M2 FIELD, WITH TWO STAKES CONNECTED BY A SILK THREAD AT EACH END OF THE FIELD, A ROUND BALL OF 22 CM IN DIAMETER, MADE OF LEATHER AND STUFFED WITH HAIR AND CRIN.

AT THE SAME TIME, KEMARI WAS BEING PLAYED IN JAPAN, WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS.

ORIGINALLY FROM THE ASIAN CONTINENT, MORE PRECISELY FROM CHINA, DURING THE EMPIRE OF CHENG TI (32 BC) IT IS KNOWN BY THE NAME OF TSUCHUN (TSU MEANING TO KICK AND CHUN, LEATHER BALL). IN IT, LEATHER BALLS WERE THROWN WITH THE FEET, WITH THE AIM OF SCORING GOALS IN THE 50 CM OPENING IN THE CENTER OF A 10M HIGH SILK CURTAIN.

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF EASTERN CIVILIZATION WERE BROUGHT TO THE MIDDLE EAST BY WARS, MOST NOTABLY THOSE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, AND GAMES WERE AMONG THEM.

IN GREECE, 800 B.C., EPYSKIROS WAS PLAYED, WHICH BECAME HARPASTON, AND THEN HARPASTUM, WHEN THE ROMANS ARRIVED THERE FINDING THAT GAME.

IN ANCIENT ROME, A GAME CALLED HARPASTUM WAS PLAYED WITH THE AIM OF SCORING GOALS IN THE OPPONENT’S GOAL, FORMED BY TWO STAKES CONNECTED BY A SILK THREAD. THE BALL WAS MADE OF LEATHER AND STUFFED WITH HORSEHAIR.

EVERYTHING LEADS US TO BELIEVE THAT THE GAMES PLAYED IN THE MIDDLE AGES, IN ITALY AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES, DERIVED FROM HARPASTUM.

IN ITALY, THE DERIVATION OF HARPASTUM WAS CALLED GIOCO DE CALCIO. IT WAS PLAYED WITH 27 (TWENTY-SEVEN) PLAYERS AND THE GOAL WAS SCORED BY MAKING THE BALL PASS BETWEEN 2 (TWO) BATS.

THERE WERE INDICATIONS OF SYSTEMS AND TACTICS, WITH THE 27 (TWENTY-SEVEN PLAYERS DIVIDED INTO: RUNNERS, SERVERS, FORWARDS AND DEFENDERS. IT WAS PLAYED ON SUNDAYS, ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO CARNIVAL.

IN FRANCE, ANCIENT GAUL, IT WAS CALLED SOULE OR SHOULE. IT HAD SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS TO THE HARPASTUM, BUT THE FIELD WAS MUCH LARGER, THE LENGTH BEING DETERMINED BY TWO STREETS, CHURCHES, OR ANY OTHER LANDMARKS. HOWEVER, THE OBJECTIVE WAS THE SAME, TO GET THE BALL TO THE END OF THE FIELD.

THE GAME WAS INTRODUCED TO ENGLAND ON OCTOBER 16, 1066, BY THE FOLLOWERS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR AFTER THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS. THE GAME WAS PLAYED WITH A LOT OF VIOLENCE.

IN 1823, FOOT-BALL WAS ESTABLISHED WITHIN THE CURRENT CHARACTERISTICS, FROM HURLING, DISTINGUISHING ITSELF FROM RUGBY, IN WHICH IT WAS ALLOWED TO PLAY WITH THE HANDS, WHEN WILLIAM EBB ELLIS, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF RUGBY, CAUGHT THE BALL WITH HIS HANDS AND RAN WITH IT DRIBBLING SEVERAL OPPONENTS UNTIL IT CROSSED THE GOAL LINE.

IN 1848 THERE WAS A UNIFICATION OF THE RULES WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF CAMBRIDGE, HARROWS, WESTMINSTER, WINCHESTER AND ELTON’S STUDENTS.

FOOTBALL GREW RAPIDLY IN ENGLAND, AND ON 26 OCTOBER 1863, THE ENGLISH FOOT-BALL ASSOCIATION WAS FOUNDED AT THE FREEMASON TAVERN, GREAT QUEEN ESTREET, LONDON.

THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE FASCINATION THAT THE SPHERE, AN EXTENSION OF THE CIRCLE LIKE THE SUN AND THE MOON, IN THE CASE OF SOCCER THE BALL, WITH ITS MAGICAL AURA, EXERTS ON THE HUMAN BEING, WHO FROM THE FIRST GENERATIONS, EVEN AT THE EARLIEST AGES, HAS FUN PLAYING FOR PLEASURE AND REJOICING. WITH A BALL, A MAN IS NOT ALONE, AND CONTROLLING IT, OR EVEN KICKING IT, IS A CHALLENGE TO IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY!

P.S. – Ontem, 14 de fevereiro, reuniu-se um grupo de grandes e antigos Amigos desde a Adolescência, num Quiosque na Ribeira. Foi uma noite memorável, pré-carnaval, quando recebemos as camisas da Banda Inimigos da Bebida, Presidida pelo Mano Bolãozinho e relembramos a História e nossas Estórias. Louvem-se as presenças de todos e da nossa Dorinha, idealizadora do Evento!

P.S. – Yesterday, February 14th, a group of great and old Friends since Adolescence gathered, at a Kiosk in Ribeira. It was a memorable night, pre-carnival, when we received the shirts of the Enemies of the Drink Band, chaired by Mano Bolãozinho and remembered History and our Stories. Praise for the presence of everyone and our Dorinha, creator of the Event!

P.S. – 2 – Quando vou à Ilha do Governador, ao passar por cada local vem à memória uma estória. Recordar é viver. Ali naquele antigo cais da Ribeira, no início de nosso casamento (Sônia e Zé) ali íamos comer o primeiro cachorro quente daqueles grandes, com tudo dentro, que Rainha Feiosa adorava, na volta eu comprava um Angu à Baiana na Sargento João Lopes, onde morávamos e fomos felizes.

P.S. – 2 – When I go to Ilha do Governador, when passing by each place, a story comes to mind. To remember is to live. There in that old pier of Ribeira, at the beginning of our marriage (Sônia and Zé) there we would eat the first hot dog of those big ones, with everything inside, which Rainha Feiosa loved, on the way back I bought an Angu à Baiana in Sargento João Lopes, where we lived and we were happy.