It's basically for safety, so the people playing do not get hurt. Without pads there would be injuries all the time, and maybe even deaths, and its hard to find good football players, but mainly it's for safety and to keep them secure.
Football players wear shorts and comfortable jerseys when playing the game. The jerseys may be short sleeved or long sleeved depending on the weather.
No, you can wear knee pads that go on your knees to help with digging.
Yes, goalkeepers wear shin pads.
Yes they do. They use foam padded ones so that no damage is caused to other players during contact. They are specially designed for rugby because of this quality. They are used as they provide protection to the shin: therefore protecting the player from stamping whilst on the ground.
My son is 14 year old i think he needs a size adult shin pads for football but i am not sure what size he needs do you have a size chart or any information at all of sizes.
Football Boots, Shin Pads, A few balls, Football pitch etc.
Footballers are required to wear shin pads/guards.
In soccer (football) there are shin guards which cover your shins, obviously. But there are no manditory leg pads. You could google FIFA laws of the game to see if you are allowed to wear other pads but you are not required. Hope this helps
Box lacrosse goalies do wear leg pads made of hard plastic material like a big shin guards, in field lacrosse goalies can only wear soccer style shin guards
moth gard,cothes,shin pads
The following is a list of the necessary equipment to be safe playing football - (soccer):ShirtShortsSocksBoots with studsShin pads, possibly with ankle protectorsmaybe bodywarmers
Yes.