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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 3843212" data-attributes="member: 45785">In Brazil, Football is what we call soccer. Professional soccer fields are larger than school fields, and their fields are similar but not the same as ours. They measure in meters where we use yards, there is quite a bit of allowed variance in field size, and the difference could be a rounding error, too. after all, 2.64 is not that much larger than 2.2 acres. They don't actually use acres there, either. Hectares is more likely in the metric system they use. That's 10,000 square meters, or a bit under 2.5 acres. I went back and watched the video again, and it does say stadiums, but I searched stadiums in brazil and found this one: <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/soccer-field-power-players-kinetic-energy-brazil-electricity/" target="_blank">Brazil soccer field harnesses player-power</a> you can see from the photo that the "stadium" doesn't have bleachers and such as even our high school stadiums have, and it's quite a bit smaller than an American Football field. Could just be because this one is built in one of the more notorious slums. I've never been to Brazil, so have no personal knowledge of what things are like there. I can tell you that Brazilian Football is a path out of the slums there as much as American Football and Basketball and other sports is for folks here in our slums. Considerable inspiration, if not any sort of guarantee. I worked in the ISR classroom at my local high school for nearly 5 years. Quite a few of my students plans for the future involved playing Pro Basketball, Football, or Baseball. One of the exercises I'd have them work through was to calculate the number of players in their preferred sport: I had them add in all the support people, too, just so the odds weren't quite a high, and then figure their odds of making it in that field. I also told them not to give up the dream, but that they'd better have a backup plan, as well. More than one, if possible! There'd been a College player around that time, that got his knees destroyed, IIRC. He'd been taking college seriously, so had good grades in another field, and I'd remind them of that possibility. And I'd also suggested that if they couldn't make it as the star Quarterback, Pitcher, or whatever, if they loved the game enough, they could be one of the trainers, or other support folks, too. Haven't seen any of my kids from there make it  big in any field, but I've run into a few of them now and then, and they generally thank me for making them think things through a bit better than they had. Last one I ran into was delivering my pizza, and recognized me. He was attending college, finally, something like 15 years after I was last teaching there. It was actually a teacher's assistant position, but there was no teacher in that classroom, and the longest I had a student in there was usually about 5 class days. Though there were a few who spent a couple of months in there with me, in the course of that five years. <img src="/images/smilies/wink.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" />I used to tell them that if they'd had ISR when I was in high school I'd have probably had a reserved desk in it. <img src="/images/smilies/wink.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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