Football is one of the most expensive sports. Multimillion sponsorship agreements, record transfers, disturbing consciousness, sky-high salaries, which are received by the stars of this sport.

Football is one of the most accessible sports. In order to play football, it is not necessary to have expensive outfits, and to find where to play is not so difficult. There are times when the ball is replaced by children on the street, for example, a scrap of paper wrapped with scotch tape, and the gate from a pair of school portfolios,.

Football is love, it's inspiration, it's life.. And many of those who now are idols of millions, managed to achieve their own and became one of the best in the most popular sport of the world, without having for that great means or possibilities.

Gabriel Jesus Gaby was born in the north of Sao Paulo, in an area where for some people life is a real struggle. His football life, he also started here, where he played for the club Pekeninos. Here, as Jesus himself says, "there were no papers to sign, nothing, because this club did not turn children into profits - it showed them something positive".

What comes first when you think about Brazilian kids playing on the streets? Beaches, sand, palms ... all this was not for Jesus. Pekeninos played on a small area right behind the military prison, surrounded by huge pines. Coverage - no lawn, no artificial grass and not even asphalt. The young talent of Man City began its career in the mud. In addition to children on this site, policemen from prison.

"Our team often took part in various tournaments, where the trophy was a can of soda. Soda - was for us more than Copa Libertadores, "- confessed Jesus. A little later he began to play at serious amateur tournaments with older men who promised to break his legs after the match and Gabriel held up to the parking lot almost the whole team to save from "crazy".

Now Jesus is one of the most promising players in the world, has already become the champion of England, has a sponsorship agreement with adidas, and in summer will go to the World Cup!.

Leo Messi Perhaps the best player in the history of football began his career on the streets of the Argentine city of Rosario. From the age of four he acted under the guidance of his father, whose main place of business was a steel mill.

In addition, whenever his older brothers went to play football on the street, he ran away with them and played against the guys who were much older than him. Little Leo was so brilliant on the street that at 8 he was spotted at Newals Old Boys, and at 13 he had already moved to Barcelona.

Igor Belanov From the owner of a record number of Golden Balls, we turn to the Ukrainian player who has this award - Igor Belanov.

A native of Odessa grew up a short and thin guy, and therefore very few people paid attention to him. They say that it was for this reason that he was not immediately taken to Chernomorets school. Belanov at a young age was in favor of the team of the local housing office. And only when he joined the army, he began to play for the Odessa SKA. After the army was Chernomorets, Dynamo Kiev, Golden Ball ... Karim Benzema French striker, despite the criticism that pours on him from all sides, had a great career, becoming one of the best scorers in the history of the Champions League.

And started climbing to the top of little Coco from the streets. He was born in a family of emigrants from Algeria, who brought up nine children. The only entertainment of the young player was football, which he drove in the courtyard with brothers and friends. At the age of 8 he began to play for the local junior team, and a year later he was taken to Lyon, who spotted a very capable player.

"The main thing is that football helped him get out into people from such a region, where it's difficult to get out alive," - said of Benzema his first mentor.

Street football in our days Football enthusiasm for the streets is growing every day and world brands quickly picked it up. Adidas has created a unique project THE BASE - football urban space for street and professional football in many cities around the world.

adidas The BASE Kyiv is a combination of street and professional football on the territory of one of the most urbanized places in Kiev, where under the same roof there will be a whole stadium with stands, a cage for panna and a playground for street football, a lounge and entertainment areas, including a food court, kicker, ping-pong. Visitors to The BASE Kyiv are offered uncompromising football battles in the 5-5, 2-2, 1-1 format and battles on the PlayStation, as well as the broadcasting of the Champions League final, parties, tournaments and master classes.. The guests of the space will also be able to communicate with professional players, take a picture with the UEFA Champions League cup and just have a great time with friends under cool music.

Similar spaces adidas already opened in Europe, in Berlin it was visited by many world football stars.

The key events of The BASE Kyiv will be football tournaments Young Champions for teens of 13-15 years old and already loved by the football audience of the capital Tango League (16-25 years).

Registration for all tournaments is open on the website www. adidas. com / ua / thebase.

Also, all visitors to the Base will also be offered the opportunity to test football updates from adidas, and due to the fact that the space is completely covered, players will not depend on weather conditions and will be able to conduct training on any convenient day.