More than 161 years ago, a group of people decided to unify the sport and create regulations and equality for everyone who plays. London, England, was where this first step took place and to this day, they claim to be the inventors of football.
But how do you explain that there is an owner of a passion? That someone created that feeling of being part of something a hundred years ago? Well, no, football does not have an owner, it has an origin. That, precisely, makes it the union of an entire planet.
A sport that has no ages, genders, nationalities and/or ethnicities. It belongs to no one; it belongs to everyone. Because all that remains is something that slides on the ground and two objects to mark a goal. Because whether you play it on a field, at home or on the street, it is football; It’s your football and no one can take that away from you.
That is why the sense of belonging that this discipline generates is global and has no limits. That’s why, every 4 years the world comes to a standstill for something called the FIFA World Cup.
Not even every 4 years, the Champions League that is played every year also puts the population on pause. It is so much the sense of belonging that the Spanish classic must be scheduled at a specific time so that the entire globe can have access to its transmission.
One of the easiest things to find on the planet is discord, hatred, and disagreement. But one of the few things that exchange this for the powerful word of unity is football. Football moves masses, grants dreams give experiences, but it unites people. Union in support of a goal, a team, an anthem, a shield, which is football.
An activity capable of bringing together 200,000 people, as in the 1950 World Cup final at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Football has no owner. It is yours and it is mine; is ours.
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