Geometry and football

Every day we can observe that the spaces that surround us are different that is to say they have a measure, in our chosen subject that is "The geometry in sports", it is enough to leave the classrooms to the school field to see that they are not The same basketball court as the football lounge, even the balls have different measures as well as throws.

Geometry being a part of mathematics, a subject that sometimes can not be understood, now we know that it is very important even in the practice of sports.

Geometry is one of those topics that do not seem to matter much at all, like mathematics. But the truth is that in sports they use geometry a lot.

Geometry and football



Football is the most played sport in the world also its physical space is related to geometry, it is played in a rectangular field of natural or synthetic grass, has the field divided into two parts as in basketball has a divided circle in the center, on both sides has the goalkeeper or goalkeeper with a net that serves to make goals. The field has a measurement of 90 to 120m in length and 45 to 90m in width.


Formerly, the ball had the shape of a truncated icosahedron, now it has a sphere.