The size of a football goal follows the generally accepted standard. This allows field players and goalkeepers to prepare for games without worrying about the frame being over or under one of the away matches.
Instructions
Step 1
Football is the king of sports. Hundreds of millions of people on Earth are in love with this team game, which led to the creation of an entire empire, whose activities revolve around a striped ball. At the same time, there is not only ordinary football on a green field, but also mini-football and beach football, which also attract a considerable number of fans and participants.
Step 2
The most popular type of football is standard football, the home of which is England. This statement is very controversial, since in pre-Christian Russia there was a game similar to football, and also among the ancient Mayans, fights with a ball were known, where horizontal rings, similar to basketball ones, were used instead of gates. But it was in this form, in which we are used to seeing it, that football originated in Great Britain in the middle of the 19th century.
Step 3
Initially, English football was played by university students and the upper class. Over time, people from the working class became addicted to the game. Football became widely available and began to push social and territorial boundaries.
Step 4
At the beginning of the 20th century, the popularity of football increased so much that it was decided to include this sport in the program of the Summer Olympic Games, and a little later - to hold individual world championships. The first world championship took place in 1930, then the Uruguay national team took first place. After that, it was decided to gather the best teams in one of the countries every four years in order to compete in the ability to win, scoring goals into other people's gates.
Step 5
The gate was originally made of wood. Sometimes this led to funny situations. For example, in some matches, after a strong blow, the gate simply broke and fell. I had to put them back on, wasting precious time. As you know, in football, two halves of 45 minutes are played, while fixing the gate could take 10-20 minutes.
Step 6
To avoid curious situations and give a higher status to the game, the international football federation existing at that time proposed to install a metal frame of the goal, on which the net was stretched. The net allows the ball not to fly into the stands, even after a powerful shot on target.
Step 7
It is quite natural that the federations of countries began to think about what size the gate should be. Some unified standard was required. As a result, a decision was made, according to which the height of the football goal began to correspond to 8 feet, which is 2.44 meters, and the width - 8 yards (7, 32 meters). Currently, this is the size of the gate installed in all stadiums in the world.
Step 8
In cases where the gate does not meet the standards, the result of the match may be canceled, and the fight itself may be replayed on a neutral field, or the home team will receive a forfeit defeat. Once Lokomotiv Moscow won the UEFA Cup match against Swiss Sion with a score of 5: 1, but the goal was already 20 cm. stage.
Step 9
In winter, the viewer's attention is riveted on a different kind of football. Mini-football has gained great popularity in our country over the past twenty years. This kind of football is played not by 10 field players and 1 goalkeeper, but by five field players and 1 goalkeeper. The site itself is smaller. Naturally, the dimensions of the gates are also reduced and correspond to a certain standard. So the width of the mini-football goal is 3 meters, and the height is 2 meters. At the same time, the score is simply hockey - 7: 5, 4: 3, but sometimes the teams play a goalless draw.
