All you need is football madness and these interesting pitches

PARIS (AFP) Playing football, nothing could be simpler, right? All you need is a ball, a few players and -- a pitch.

Around the world and whatever the landscape, football grounds abound -- and are as varied and diverse as the people who play on them.

A pitch in Greenland, Photo: File

Perched on top of a Japanese department store, lost on a dusty mountain trail in Nepal or nestled at the foot of an ancient aqueduct in Rome.

Pitch in Himalayas. Photo: File

Where there is a love of football, there will always be a pitch.

In football-mad Brazil, pitches are crammed between crowded neighborhoods in big cities like Sao Paolo or swallowed in Rio s Tavares Bastos favela by buildings piled up like a house of unsteady cards.

Pitches are crammed between crowded neighborhoods. Photo: File

In New York s Brooklyn, footballers play by the waterside with the Statue of Liberty for backdrop.

Football pitches in NewYork: Photo: File

Seoul s nightlife includes a pitch ablaze with light on a rooftop above a shopping centre.

Above the Shopping Mall, football pitch in Seoul: Photo: File

In Switzerland, players drink in the beauty of mountains and valleys with Lac Leman in the distance.

Football pitches in mountains and valleys in Switzerland: Photo: File

The Arctic Circle boasts Henninsvaer FC s ground, whose green synthetic turf is squeezed between Norway s snow-capped mountains and icy seas.

Football pitch in the Arctic. Photo: File

In Turin, a local pitch nestles atop a building among church spires and reddish-brown rooftops while in Rangeley, central England, teams play beneath the massive cooling towers of a huge coal-fired power station.