FOOTBALL Nothing in our present generation is so spectacular so captivating that brings the eyes of more than 1.2 billion
people from all over the world to its self like the
football. The football a large round or elliptical inflated ball, commands the attention of both young and old, rich and poor, men and women, the sick and the healthy to a common ground the pitch. Before the end of every four years modern coliseum are built billions of dollars are spent by governments, companies and well to do individuals in one way or the other to host the great fiesta of our time the world cup. Yes all set and done, the event is about to begin, the date is announced and time declared all over the world sets the ardrinalin in motion. The rich are uncomfortable in their homes, they jet out to the host country to watch live the great event, those who cannot make it to the host country through planes and ship travel through their TV set via satellite to the venue. Some private jobs are closed temporarily to watch the World Cup, fanatics leave their farms early, those without TV set trek one or two km to watch in cinemas were movies are suspended only for football. Nations are represented by their
gladiators, not with swords and spear but with boots and jerseys. When the ball is kept in the middle of the field surrounded by gladiators before the chief judge hammers all over the world the tension is high, meals are kept aside, nobody cares who sits nearby whether leprous or TB patient all glued to one object of peace the ball, the symbol of one world, one love, and one game bringing the four corners of the earth together, it had brought down the barriers of race, age, class, culture and nationality that so often keep us apart, that is why on charismas day 1914 facing each other in trenches separated by dead bodies and mortar holes, a group of British and Allied soldiers and opposing German battalion laid down their arms and played the famous football match in history.