A Soccer History Essay

My sport is soccer, and this essay is a description of how the game is played, the history of soccer equipments, and how they improved based on Newton’s Laws. The equipments used in the game of soccer are uniforms/jersey, sock, shin guards, cleats, ball, field and goal. Soccer, more commonly known as fútbol, is a sport played between 2 teams and 11 players with a spherical ball. There are four positions in the game. these are goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and forwards. The keeper is the only player whose allowed to use his hands. That activity is restricted to the rectangular penalty area extended 18 yards from each side of the goal. The defenders play in front of the goalkeeper, and their main job is to stop the opposition to stop from
scoring. Outside fullbacks play on the left and right sides and rarely move from their sides of the field. Central defenders play in the middle of the field and usually cover the opposition’s leading goal scorer or center forward or forwards. The forward’s primary job is to score goals or to create them for teammates. The game has basic and simple rules. A player can not touch the ball with his hands, if a player did he will get a yellow card and the opposition will have the ball. If a player gets a second yellow card he will get an automatic red card and will be sent off the field, and he will not play the next match of the season. If a player gets a pass behind the last defender it will be an offside and the opposition will have the ball. If a player tackles, trips or gets too physical against opposing player it will be a foul and again the opposition will have the ball, and one goal counts as one point

One of the most important equipments are the soccer ball, soccer cleats and shinguards.
The soccer ball is used to pass, kick, and score goals. It’s the major part of the game and it actually has a history behind it. Charles Goodyear is considered the inventor of the modern soccer ball. soccer-like games have been played since the earliest part of human civilizations, but as time goes by, the making of the soccer equipments have improved, and soccer was established as the popular sport and so more attention was given to the making of the soccer ball. The most common material used for making of the soccer ball are bladders. Such as the pig bladder ball played by the italians in the 1600s. Another most important equipment is the cleat. They are boots with studs on the bottom to help traction the game and avoid slipping and sliding. The first soccer shoes or soccer cleats were thought to have originated sometime around the 1500’s. King Henry was credited for making the first pair of soccer cleats. (http://www.soccermaniak.com). “King Henry’s soccer cleats were ankle high and were made of rigid leather that was much heavier than the material used for making normal shoes of the time”. Another most important equipment is the shinguard. A shin guard is a piece of soccer equipment worn on the front of a player’s shin to protect the player from injury. The invention of the first shin guards, was credited to Sam Weller Widdowson. (https://www.prosoccershinpads.com) “He made his
invention from a pair of cricket pads to protect his shins, around 1874”. In fact, Widdowson faced some ridicules for having the gall to protect the most defenseless parts of his legs. Shin guards then became the great requirement for all soccer players.

Over time, the improvements of the making of the equipments kept on getting better and better.
For example the making of the soccer ball have improved since the invention of the first soccer ball. Soccer balls today are made from leather and polyurethane. Referring to Newton’s first law, objects in motion stay in motion and object a rest stay at rest unless another force acts up to them. The first early soccer balls were made from bladders and they were really heavy. When a player kicks the ball the ball will stay in motion until another player stops it, and since the bal was heavy it did not have much acceleration. But the improved soccer balls today weigh less and they will stay in motion until another force acts up to them. The change of the second equipment which is the cleat. Newton’s 2nd law F=ma. The first ever cleats were made from leather and they were much heavier than regular shoes today. But the new improved cleats today are made from leather and synthetic. The old cleats weight more and the players will more likely have less acceleration, but the new cleats weight less so the player will have more acceleration. Another piece of equipment is the shin guards modern day shin guards are made from materials such as, fiberglass, foam rubber, polyurethane, plastic and metal. Today shin guards are made from Kevlar—the same substance used to make bulletproof vests. Newton’s 3rd law is that every action (force) has an equal opposite reaction force. When defenders
tackle you or kick you in your shin, the shin guard pushes back the same amount of force as the defender.

I’m going to build this new shin guard it will protect your entire leg and it will have less mass. Less friction equals more motion. The object in motion can’t be stopped because there is less of the new force acting up to the object in motion. Less mass equals more acceleration the shin guard has less mass so the player will accelerate faster. When a defender kicks you the shin guard has equal and opposite force bouncing off of the defender and pushing back with the same amount of force.