There was a time when I had no doubt that a proper sport required a ball. Exceptions: snowboarding, cycling, but that’s about it. Maybe boxing, swimming. Who actually invented it, the ball?
Its exact origin cannot be clearly determined, writes our friendly chatbot. Why? Because balls in different shapes and made from different materials have been around in many cultures for centuries. We thought so.
But that balls have different shapes? Hmmm. Doesn’t the round have to go into the square, or onto the club, or into the hole? Well, the Americans play their national sport with an egg that they call a ball. Football. But they also put on helmets while they play as if they were about to land on the moon, so there’s nothing to be surprised about.
A tennis ball can be so much more
Next question: Which one is the king of balls? Football, you might say, was invented specifically for Diego Maradona. If you want to know why there is a ball and what it is used for, watch a few videos online of him warming up before a match.
But to be honest, football almost never finds someone like Maradona, someone who caresses and juggles it so tenderly; in fact, he usually has to let himself be kicked badly, all the way down to the district class, and you can lose interest there , the air.
The king of balls, I would like to say, is smaller, yellow and is hit back and forth on the tennis court, but is also available for all sorts of other things. It can even be used as a football, as a look at the net proves. Rafael Nadal, for example, the Mallorcan tennis player, can not only hit the small ball into the opponent’s court at supersonic speeds, he can also make it dance on his feet.
This text comes from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
By the way, you can also do this with the American egg, a super-technical footballer like the Belgian Eden Hazard can do it impressively, and I recommend taking a look at the net.
Back to our little yellow ball. It is not only indispensable for tennis, it is also suitable as a massage and acupressure device, as a door stop, acoustic improver, volume control, even when cut in half you can still put it on the trailer hitch.
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And now this: For weeks he was traveling around German football stadiums as a flying and disruptive object for the ultras, and in the end many small tennis balls had forced the big DFL, the billion-dollar club Deutsche Fußball Liga, to abandon its investor plans. The king of balls sometimes as Robin Hood, as a helper of the disenfranchised, or better: those who act as if.
