Football is not only big money and thousands of stadiums.

When a person hears the word "football player", he immediately imagines Lionel Messi or any other world star. But football is not only a professional sport with professional equipment and a professional field.

How many players, from the smallest to adult men, are engaged in the favorite game of millions on self-made platforms or yard "boxes". Across the world, people play football in various formats - 5x5, 2x2, 1x1. This very format is not so important, the main thing for them is the game itself.

In recent years, in most of these boxes cells tournaments held at various levels: somewhere prize can serve as a kick in the soft place players losing team, but where's the title of world champion. Many such tournaments are held by current or already completed footballers, trying to develop football in their home countries or cities.

The same football stars are not averse to driving the ball on an unrealistic professional field. One of the most famous and recognizable not only among football fans is the master of this game - David Beckham - even after completing his playing career, he does not want to play with kids, for whom this can become one of the main memories and impressions in life.

The legendary football player took part in a charity event, during which he played on street platforms on all continents of the earth. Argentina, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Djibouti, the United States, England and even Antarctica.

People want to play football so much that they often create more and more football grounds. Often, a place for such sites is very difficult to find, and therefore they are erected in incredible, it would seem, places.

As someone who lives football, play it in the highlands? It's very simple, to build a platform on the mountainside.

Often in big cities it is difficult to find a place to create a new site, and therefore the exit may be roofs of high-rise buildings ... ... or you can fantasize and your football field will be very different from the others.

If you show an incredibly strong desire, you can even abandoned the garbage warehouse to make a place for football battles.

Well, if you can not find any places on earth, you can find a suitable pond where you can arrange something like this.

World brands quickly picked up the general enthusiasm for street football. Many sponsor tournaments or help in their organization.

Adidas company created a unique project THE BASE - football urban space for street and professional football in many cities around the world. In these spaces adidas arranges various street football tournaments, holds entertaining events and gives everyone a chance to feel like a football star - a player who achieves success with his skill and is ready to do anything to become the first.

Such a space will soon open in Kyiv - THE BASE KYIV. Here, on the territory of one of the most urbanized places in Kiev, under one roof there will be a whole stadium with stands, a street football court and a cage for panna, where people can get together 1 on 1. For fans of eSports here you can shlestnutsya in the fight on the PlayStation. THE BASE KYIV will host parties, training sessions and master classes that will be attended by professional players.

On the eve of the UEFA Champions League final, which will be held in Kiev, The BASE Kyiv will bring together the coolest street football players, professional players, as well as all those who are not indifferent to this sport. The space located in Podol, in the premises of the Tetra Pak factory, not far from the metro station "Taras Shevchenko", will open on May 18 and will operate for a week.

In the Kiev Base, the key events will be tournaments Young Champions (for teens 13-15 years) and Tango League (16-25 years).

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

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 for classroom music.

In addition, all visitors to The BASE Kyiv will be able to test football updates from adidas. On May 26, everyone will be able to watch the broadcast of the Champions League final on a huge screen.