SPORTS

SPORTS

USA, UNITED KINGDOM AND BOLIVIA

American Football

- Emerged in the late 19th century.

- known as ‘gridiron football’

- Variant of English Rugby

- The first game was played in 1869.

- The most popular game in USA.

American football

• The National Football League (NFL) began in 1920

• Each team needs 11 players.

• The super Bowl is the championship NFL football game.

• The first Super Bowl was played on 15 January 1967.

Rugby

• originated at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, in 1823 

• The Rugby World Cup Trophy is now named after William Webb Ellis.

• In 1871 Rugby Football Union was officially formed

• The IRB expanded Rugby throughout the Common Wealth

Rugby

• In 1987 the first Rugby World Cup was played.

• Seven world cups have been played every four years

• Rugby is made with 15 players per team: eight players in the tight scrum and seven players scattered all over the field called backs.

Soccer

• Bolivia debuted in international football in 1926

• it is one of the 10 members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation

• Bolivia's greatest football achievement was the 1963 South American Championship.

Soccer

• A match is played by two teams, each with a maximum of eleven players; one must be the goalkeeper. A match may not start or continue if either team has fewer than seven players.

Basketball

• Basketball was born in Massachusetts USA

• James Naismith was the creator

•  introduction in Europe by North American soldiers in the First World War

• it was declared an Olympic sport in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Cricket

• Cricket emerged as a game in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

• Since the mid-nineteenth century it was adopted to be played in public schools. 

• Considered as the sport that maximized manhood and leadership

Cricket

• The practitioners of this game were concentrated in the south and southeast of Great Britain

• First matches Kent vs Surrey.

Cycling

• Level cycling was born March 20, 1948

• Oruro was the epicenter.

• Interest of other regions for this sport.

• no spaces, or equipment implementations

Baseball

• The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 18th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment.

Baseball

On February 2, 1876, the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, which comes to be more commonly known as the National League (NL), is formed. The American League (AL) was established in 1901 and in 1903, the first World Series was held.

The object of baseball is to score more runs than your opponent. The idea is to hit the ball thrown at you as far as you can before running around 4 bases to complete a run. Once a player manages to get around the four bases before being tagged out, then another batter steps in.

Badminton

• The history and origin of the Badminton game begins from the ancient Greece and China dated more than 2,000 years ago, where games with shuttlecock were used. A similar game called “Hanetsuki” was also played in Japan in the 16th century.

Badminton

- This is a sport not dominated by strength, but more by skill andfinesse.

- It can be played as singles or doubles.

- A bird landing on a boundary line is in.

- Shuttlecock may NOT be hit twice on a side.

- The racket can follow through over the net, but may NOT touch thenet. You may NOT reach over the net to contact shuttlecock.

Volleyball

•  Volleyball, game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area before it can be returned.

Volleyball

- Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical director of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

- Volleyball was introduced into Europe by American troops during World War I, when national organizations were formed.

- Volleyball requires a minimum of equipment and space and can be played indoors or outdoors.

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