Get Back To The Old Days Of Football With Five A Side Football

Once you are out of school or college and begin working at an office or start running a business of your own, your fitness level starts going down. Age starts to catch up and unless you are like a fitness freak, playing any kind of sport is going to drag you down. Its inevitable and there really is no reason to become upset about it because it happens to all of us. However, if you really enjoy football, then what are your options? Lets say that you and your friends took a pledge on the last day of your high school or college to meet at least once in a year for a get together party.

Or, what if you have made a bunch of friends at the office, and want to have a game of football but none of you are really in any shape nor do you have the time to play a full-fledged match? There are challenges and no matter how strong is your resolve, getting back together into the old gaming ways is pretty tough. A possible solution for that is to play a five a side football match or even a seven a side football match. There are a lot of football centres all over the city where you can book a mini football ground that is just big enough to accommodate a small gang of friends for a friendly match of football.

If this sounds appealing to you, then you will be eager to know more about how this works.

Five A Side Football

Previously we had talked about organizing a full strength football match is nigh impossible in current circumstances. A full-fledged football will go on for almost two hours and you will need to round up at least twenty five guys who are in a good enough shape to run for that long. What are the odds of getting that? The odds are zero when you consider that you have to bring together all the schedules and commitments of all the men. If you could pull it off, it would be a real miracle. Miracles happen but you cannot depend on miracles to get you a match of football in your to do list.

A not so recent invention is this concept of five a side football. You know the normal player count of a regular football game. We have already proved that, a full strength football match is not going to happen anytime soon. Now, the idea here is to have a football match that is like a younger brother of a standard football match. There are three aspects to any football match without which there is no game to talk about.

You have the number of players, the duration of the match and lastly the size of the ground in which the game is played.

The Reduced Difficulty

The idea behind this concept of five a side match is to reduce or relax the rules and any exertion experienced because of it too. So, the first thing that goes out of the window is all those stringent rules and regulations that are part of a standard match of football. There is more room for making errors and the duration of the match is also less. Five a side also has an umpire but he is not going to start handing out red cards for every mistake you make!

Also, there are only five people to manage in each side. This makes the game less of a possible grudge match and more of a fun sport. The game is also not going to be played for any real prize or competition so you probably dont have anyone creating a ruckus over foul play or some goal that did not turn out as expected. Owing to the fact that you only ten people to have one match, you are at an advantage as compared to a full strength match.

Another great thing about football itself is that it happens to be one of the most popular sports in the world. So, even if you dont have ten friends to fill all the places in the match, you will still be able to invite friends of friends or work colleagues for a nice time. Who does not like football?

What we have is a simplified version of the worlds most famous sport which is football. You can go back in time and revisit those good old days of football albeit, with less exertion.