SPORT IS IN OUR NATURE ootball is an excellent way of playing sport, F as it is a universal sport: everyone has felt, at least once in their life, the pleasure to shoot at goal. It is instinctive. Whatever your age or background. Officially, a football weighs 430g and has a circumference of 70cm. We can make a football with any materials such as used rubber bands, balls of used paper, moss, rubber or old tennis balls. Whatever the football is made of, players will FOOTBALL definitely have great pleasure playing football. This is how Diego feels playing futsal, he helps young people from Brazil to play and share their A VIEW FROM experience. So does Tifanny, the captain of the women's team in Douai, France. In Congo, Makam makes his father's dream come true. In France, Pierre (who lives in Lyon) redesigns shirts EARTH... and forges links between clubs and nations. Our generous friends at Kipsta share their passion through KIPSTA football kit. This passion is just WHAT IF FOOTBALL WAS THE like our passion, and your passion for football. CENTRE OF THE WORLD? This file will show how football represents a universal language, through various stories of passionate sports women and sportsmen. Football is our key to escape our everyday life and THE WORLD AFTER COVID”, “THE WORLD feel free. It is a universal language we all share. A “ TOMORROW”, “THE EARTH TOMORROW”... go-between human beings and the planet Earth, a QUESTIONS WITH CONCERNS, AND way to make things better (at least for a while). FEARS. WE TRY TO KEEP A CLEAR-HEADED MIND AND STAY POSITIVE. FOOTBALL UNITES US IN SPITE OF ALL THE DOUBTS, CONFLICTS, AND LACK OF UNDERSTANDING. FOOTBALL IS THE SPIRIT. THE OFFICIAL SIZE OF A FOOTBALL FIELD IS A HUNDRED METERS LONG, AND FIFTY METERS WIDE. WE CAN PLAY FOOTBALL IN A SCHOOLYARD, SOME PLACE ON THE STREET, SOME PART OF A PAVEMENT, ON THE BEACH, IN A DAMP AND SLOPING MEADOW OR IN A CLASSROOM. EUROPE WHERE IT ALL STARTED GREAT BRITAIN 4 NATIONS, A FOOTBALL AND OFFICIAL RULES! BORN IN GREAT-BRITAIN, DEVELOPED ELSEWHERE... North End Football Club and its professional players coming from Scotland. The “Invincible's” great achievement became legendary. The very first stadium? Bramall Lane in Sheffield, in 1862. "Rule Britannia!" Football is getting popular. With powerful managers with economic and social backgrounds. The industrial revolution has helped football to expand: football on Saturdays (and beer), church on Sundays (closed pubs). Saturday's football fever! Great Britain has created heroes. Nowadays, with due respect, Great Britain recognises the achievements of Real Madrid; The Spanish club has the most Champions League titles. However, the best clubs in the UEFA competitions are from Great Britain(5). The Premier League is the best competition ever. On George Best's tombstone (a football player from Northern Ireland) we can read the words: “Maradona good, Pelé better and George... Best!”. Loud and clear. George Best passed away in 2005 aged 59, he was a winger, a genius in his craft at Manchester United and he won the Ballon d’or (best player in the ince the dawn of time, people played football in the Andes, China and world) in 1968. S everywhere really, but every country had a different way of playing. Sometimes admired or laughed at, Great Britain has always kept his Regulated football is born on an island, and took off from it. Today, if the maestria. But never created its own national team. Scotland, England, world is football's kingdom, Great Britain remains its birthplace. Wales and Northern Ireland have their own teams during World Cups or the It all started in 1848, in Cambridge. England claims its official deed with European competitions. So British, really ! the "Football Association" created in 1863, before the “Scottish Football Association” in 1873, the “Football Association of *Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health, consume in moderation Wales” in 1876, and the “Irish Football Association”, in 1880. These "old ladies" are the oldest football federations in the world. On other islands, different countries developed their own game and its stakes, its fair-play and competitions, stadiums and supporters. And also... the legend of football! British people are so proud of it they could say: United Kingdom of football! Even when Scotland tries to have a different kind of football recognised, played by aristocrats in the fifteenth century with different codes. It is family history. Even if football games were standardised by British people, football was played only in Great Britain. Before football was recognised by the international authorities and before England became World Champions in 1966, England didn't recognise FIFA in 1904, the World cup organisation in 1930 and the European Champions League in 1955. No contact with "European people". Home sweet home… The first official international game? Scotland-England, Glasgow, 30 November 1872. The first official professional championship? In England in 1888, Preston AFRICA THE FOOTBALL C NTINENT CONGO IS AFRICA THE FUTURE OF FOOTBALL? FOOTBALL ACCORDING TO MAKAM MAKAM KINANGA IS THE PRESIDENT OF SPORTS AND YOUTH, THE DIVISION 2 CLUB IN CONGO. HE TELLS US A FAMILY STORY, A STORY WHERE DREAMS CAN COME TRUE. EVEN THE CRAZIEST. jstfootballclub jstfootballclub This club, it's all my life. I am born with Now, Makam has to manage the club. With “this club”. Makam tells us with passion many sacrifices and much ingenuity. Makam and much emotion, about the "AS VEA Sport" works in the transportation field, all the money a club created by his father in 1992, when he he earns will be given to the club. Creative, was only 2 years old. A Very simple club in full of energy and new ideas, he decides to the Tshangu district in Kinshasa. But a true make tracksuits with the club label "JST". passion that grows year after year, that he Thanks to his personal network and the help passed on even after leaving Congo for France of the dynamic diaspora of Congo in France, (Montargis). “ I was seven years old, I had he manages to sell hundreds of tracksuits, and just discovered European football. I achieved 1,200 sales in 2017! was a fan of Real Madrid and Olympique Stimulated by the great amount of sales, Marseille, especially of Didier Drogba. he gets in touch with KIPSTA, Decathlon's Today, I am a fan of PSG!” football brand. “Many clubs ask Decathlon But my main passion is for the "AS VEA" Club. for partnership, but Makam had such Later, when he lived in Kinshasa for a while, an interesting personal story, a great he dreamed of a new start for his dad's club. motivation, great ideas, that we “When I saw people's enthusiasm for accepted his request" said Grégory Volpi, this club, it became clear to me I had to product manager of KIPSTA. In 2020 during do something for it”. With more than two the summer time, the partnership was signed. millions inhabitants in Tshangu, I believe its Today, adult and juniormembers of the club potential was high: “I was willing to get wear the whole KIPSTA equipment Kipsta has together all young people of the district helped develop a digital store to sell the "JST" and bring them into the club”. In 2013, equipment. when his dad pulled out of the club, Makam Makam's project grows, but there is a long accepted to take its place without any doubt: way before he can achieve his dream : to play he very simply decided to buy the club. “My in League 1, be part of the African League, the father thought he had failed, he wanted to clubs World Cup, build a stadium, and even bring the club to the top. I was willing to put all a training center for young players “ to play my energy to achieve that too". in the best European clubs.” For now, the At 23, Makam became the youngest president "JST" is playing in the " Martyrs stadium", of a football club in Congo. He seriously the national team stadium, for 80,000 people, wants to create “the biggest club in the while they have 3,000 supporters. When you district”. With a great will power and new tell him he is too ambitious, that his goal is ideas, the club merges with...the rival club, the unreal, Makam says: “I always reach for "Canon 13". In 2016, The "AS EVA Sport" the stars!” club changes its name: “Jeunesse Sportive de Tshangu” (Tshangu's Sports and Youth). ASIA FOOTBALL FUN IN BASKETBALL LAND FOOTBALL-CITIZEN OF THE WORLD, CHRIS OJAMIREN PLAYED FOOTBALL IN NIGERIA, SENEGAL AND BENIN, BEFORE HE SETTLED IN THE PHILIPPINES IN 2011. HE BECAME THE CHILDRENS' COACH, A TRUE CHALLENGE IN THIS COUNTRY WHERE BASKETBALL IS THE MOST COACH CHRIS POPULAR SPORT. CHILDREN FROM PHILIPPINES FIRST! bravovisionsports bravovisionsports conversion you didn't choose is always The first step was to become a qualified coach A a difficult time to live for athletes. Chris under the AFC (Asian Football Confederation). Ojamiren was playing in different Filipino's As he was not born in the Philippines he can clubs, in 2014 he stopped playing, after a only work occasionally, it becomes an asset in career ending cruciate ligament injury. He the end, he spent his free time developing his joined the English School of Manilla, the project. The second step was to find sponsors. capital city, as a coach. He was then thinking Luckily, in September 2018, a French retailer, of creating a football Academy. “During that Decathlon, opened a store, next door, in time, I felt football could be developed Dasmarinas.