Before,

This sport was as boring as standing outside for 90 plus hours

Most played sport around the world

Goes 2,000 years ago to ancient China

England transitioned soccer, or what the British

and many other people around the world call “Football”

English made uniform rules

Forbidding tripping opponents

and touching the ball

Before,

No penalty kick until 1891

Red and yellow cards didn’t exist

Fifa in 1900’s

Tackles from behind forbidden

Leather soccer balls

Balls broke peoples toes

Goalkeepers banned from handling

deliberate back passes

Basically soccer was as dead as a tree in the fall

Before,

Top players were Pele that carried his Brazilian

soccer team to a world cup title

Zinedin Zidane and Diego Maradona

Great footballers

Legends they were

They were as fast as cheetahs in the pitch

the ball flew

the ball cried as the legends hit them

Everyone in tears as they won the world cup

Never forgotten

Now,

The sport is a fun as leaving school

Legends are forgotten

New legends on the rise

Ball is softer

Ball can’t break toes

Tackles aren’t cards

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are new legends

Ball is like magic on their feet

They weren't born the best

They worked their butts off to be the best.