Soccer Football in SPAAACE! ISS 'naut nails zero-G bicycle kick

Unless you've been living on a deserted island for the past year or so, you know that the World Cup kicked off today with a match between Brazil and Croatia – and three crew members of the International Space Station have produced a video to celebrate the greatest team-sports event in the world over which they're orbiting. …

[Charlie Clark]

Typical

Bet the Americans used the wrong units when putting the ISS together otherwise it would be regulation pitch sized!

[Big-nosed Pengie]

Re: Typical

Given that the Americans measure everything in football fields, they probably got it right.

Of course they never say which brand of football. (I assume they're all different sizes.)

[ukgnome]

regulation pitch sized?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/rules_and_equipment/4200666.stm

The length of a pitch must be between 100 yards (90m) and 130 yards (120m) and the width not less than 50 yards (45m) and not more than 100 yards (90m)

[BongoJoe]

Re: regulation pitch sized?

...and can't be square.

[Johnny Canuck]

That looks like entirely too much fun.

[Return To Sender]

Draw straws.

When the ball gets accidentally kicked in to the orbit next door, who has to go and ask for it back?

[D@v3]

Zero G football.

Looks great. How long before we can get a larger, but much simpler (less scientific bits and bobs hanging off every available surface), space station up, so that we can start ZG football as a proper sport?

[Robert Helpmann??]

Re: Zero G football.

A ZG football league is a thing to look forward to. ZG football riots on the other hand...

[Vladimir Plouzhnikov]

Er...

A football, windows, vacuum, a couple of guy messing about - what could go wrong?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Er...

'A football, windows, vacuum,'

didn't they abandon windows in favour of linux last year?