who invented the wall as a defense against free kicks in soccer?
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The Germans in Berlin after WWII.
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Zinedine Zidane because he is a great captain and a great playmaker.    He is actually the only playmaker who is able to do a 360 degrees spin when facing an opponent.  He has helped France to winning world Cup 1998 and Euro 2000.
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It would be Ronaldinho. And, by the way, the answer IS indeed about football (how it is called by all the world except for the US), which is played with feet and a ball (hence, called football), which (American) "football" is not (ironically enough, it is played with the hands (not feet) and with an ovoid, not a ball) :-)
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I agree. Beckham is the best at taking freekicks. Two victories for England have been due to his freekics.
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One of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\n\nSo i guess the answer is the japanese
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The founder of madrid founded madrid.\n\n\nfirst site is for city\nCity: Madrid was founded by Ocno Bianor in the 9th century.\n\nFor soccer team (second site):\nfounded March 6, 1902\nas Sociedad Madrid Foot-ball Club
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I would say try getting some people together and use the fence as a goal and play soccer.If you did not know this,a forward is the person who makes the goals, a defender is the one who helps the goalie but cannot touch the ball with hands, and you probably know what a goalie is. I say practice forwarding. It really helps you in soccer. \n          P.S. I play.
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James Naismith was a soccer coach and he wanted to develop an indoor exercise that would keep his team in shape during the off season. So he nailed up wooden fruit baskets on the walls and had his team run around throwing the soccer balls into the fruit baskets. He eventually developed this into basketball as we know it today. If you get a chance, visit the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield Massachusetts.\n\nCenturies ago, the Aztecs of Mexico are supposed to have had a basketball-like game, where the two teams tried to kick or throw a heavy rubber ball through an elevated hole in the wall, but we don't consider this to be related to modern basketball.  The losing team was made into human sacrifices; that was their version of 'sudden death overtime'.
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The origins of soccer go back way further than 1620, most ancient cultures had some sort of ball game played by it's population. The Mayans for instance were playing a ball game over 3000 years ago!\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame\nOfficially though, FIFA credit the invention to the Chinese. That version however was undoubtly was very different to the modern game, which as noted above, was properly formalised into Association Football in England during the 19th Century
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The skill of kicking a ball into a small net was used by the Chinese military during the "Han Dynasty". But it became a game more recently. Soccer actually is short for Associated Football. British college students started calling it "soccer" as a shortened word. \n\nAs for WHY soccer was invented, I guess to have a good time and to compete with other people. It improves your foot-eye coordination too...
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Roberto Carlos(Brazil)- one of the all-time best free kick takers.
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As far as I can understand, not in Britain. The first time I'm aware of is when Jesper Olsen (Ajax, later Man Utd.) passed the ball to Johan Cruyff in a game against Helmond Sport, sometime in the late 70's
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Defense:\nNesta (Italy), Cannavaro (Italy), Coloccini (Argentina), Puyol (Spain)\n\nMidfield:\nRiquelme (Arg), Kaka (Brazil), Ronaldinho (Brazil), Pirlo (Italy)\n\nAttack:\nRonaldo (Brazil), Luca Toni (Italy), Lionel Messi (Arg)\n\nGoalie\nNone other than the one and only Gigi Buffon (Italy)
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It was Socrates from Brazil. He has a brother that also played for the Brazilian nation team... "Rai".
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It was Gerd Müller. He was also known as "Kleines dickes Müller" which means "Litte fat Müller" ;)\nHe played for FC Bayern München and scored the decisive goal in the Word Cup final 1974 against the Netherlands in Munich for the 2:1 victory.
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The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise of precisely this skilful technique dating back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in China. \n\nA military manual dating from the period of the Han Dynasty includes among the physical education exercises, the "Tsu'Chu". This consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30 - 40 cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes - a feat which obviously demanded great skill and excellent technique. A variation of this exercise also existed, whereby the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders whilst trying to withstand the \n\nattacks of his opponents. Use of the hands was not permitted. The ball artistry of today's top players is therefore not quite as new as some people may assume. \nAnother form of the game, also originating from the Far East, was the Japanese Kemari, which dates from about 500 to 600 years later and is still played today. This is a type of circular football game, far less spectacular, but, for that reason, a 'more dignified and ceremonious experience, requiring certain skills, but not competitive ' in the way the Chinese game was, nor is there the slightest sign of struggle for possession of the ball. The players had to pass the ball to each other, in a relatively small space, trying not to let it touch the ground.\n\nThe Greek game "episkyros", relatively little of which has been handed down, was much livelier, as was the Roman game "Harpastum". The latter was played with a smaller ball with two teams contesting the game on a rectangular field marked by boundary lines and a centre-line. The object was to get the ball over the opponents' boundary lines. The ball was passed between players and trickery was the order of the day. Each team member had his own specific tactical assignment and the spectators took a vociferous interest in the proceedings and the score. The role of the feet in this game was so small as scarcely to be of consequence. This game remained popular for 700 or 800 years, but, although the Romans took it to England with them, it is doubtful whether it can be considered as a forerunner of contemporary football. The same applies for hurling, a popular game with the Celtic population, which is played to this very day in Cornwall and Ireland. lt is possible that influences were asserted, but it is certain that the decisive development of the game of football with which we are now familiar took place in England and Scotland.\n\nThe game that flourished in the British Isles from the 8th to the 19th centuries had a considerable variety of local and regional versions - which were subsequently smoothed down and smartened up to form the present day sports of association football and rugby football. - They were substantially different from all the previously known forms - more disorganised, more violent, more spontaneous and usually played by an indefinite number of players. Frequently, the games took the form of a heated contest between whole village communities or townships - through streets, village squares, across fields, hedges, fences and streams. Kicking was allowed, as in fact was almost everything else. However, in some of these games kicking was out of the question due to the size and weight of the ball being used. In such cases, kicking was instead employed to fell opponents. Incidentally, it was not until nine years after the football rules had been established for the first time in 1863 that the size and weight of the ball were finally standardised. Up to that time, agreement on this point had usually been reached by the parties concerned when they were arranging the match, as was the case for the game between London and Sheffield in 1866. This match was also the first where the duration of the game was prearranged for one
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1994, on the penalty/free kicks to see who would win the world cup between Brazil Italy, Roberto Carlos- left foward wing #6. broke the rocord and become to have to strongest kick in the world.. 1999 David Beckman or w.e had the strongest kick in the world, but it did not brake Roberto Carlos 1994 record.\n\nand other then that.. idk..\n\nhope that helps ya