A selection of photos that will fill your heart with joy! Soccer enthusiasts will definitely appreciate this article, because one of the most appealing aspects of soccer is its simplicity—a ball, some open space, goal markers, and you can play.
From players of FC Gspon (white), representing Switzerland who play against FC Zuma (red), representing Spain to boys who play football on a pitch at Tavares Bastos favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, these pictures will give you a beautiful perspective about soccer fields around the world.
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Players of FC Gspon (white), representing Switzerland, play against FC Zuma (red), representing Spain, during their Mountain Villages international soccer tournament match in Gspon, in the Swiss Alps. The match is played on the highest elevated soccer field in Europe. At about 2,000 meters, the pitch can only be reached by a cable car, which can only carry up to 10 people, or on foot—a 45-minute climb.
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KV Svalbard’s crew, formed by Norwegian navy privates and scientists from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, play soccer as they are protected from polar bears by armed guards in the sea around Greenland.
Marius Vagenes Villanger / Kystvakten / Sjoforsvaret / NTB Scanpix / Norsk Telegrambyra AS / Reuters
The football stadium of Henninsvaer FC is photographed in Henningsvaer, in Norway’s Lofoten islands.
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A man does pushups while guarding a goal post as he and others play soccer on a street during an anti-government protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters
Children play soccer after the inauguration ceremony of a new pitch installed at Mineira favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 200 self-energy-supplied Pavegen panels, invented by British Laurence Kemball-Cook, were installed underground to capture kinetic energy created by the movement of the football players. The energy is stored and combined with solar panels’ energy to illuminate the pitch during the night.
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Players attend a football tournament among local amateur teams in a stadium made of straw named Zenit Arena, in the settlement of Krasnoye in the Stavropol region of Russia.
Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters
Players compete during a local third-category football match between Atletico Diritti and Cetus Roma at the Campo Gerini ground beside the Felice Acqueduct in Rome, Italy.
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Somali people play football in the smoky air, due to burning garbage at a destroyed and abandoned secondary school, in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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A futsal pitch, built on the rooftop of a department store next to the Shibuya crossing (bottom left), in Tokyo, Japan, photographed.
Toru Yamanaka / AFP / Getty
Members of the Amazonian Tatuyo tribe play in their village in the Rio Negro near Manaus City.
Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
Children play football on a floating pitch in Koh Panyee, in Thailand’s southern Phang Nga province.
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A donkey stands on an empty soccer field near the village of Las Parcelas in Fuerteventura, Spain.
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An aerial view of a football pitch located near an interchange in Shenyang, in China’s northeastern Liaoning province.
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A picture from the Mont de Gourze in Riez, western Switzerland, shows a football pitch illuminated with floodlights at sunset above the Lake Geneva.
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Boys play football on a pitch at Tavares Bastos favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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