“Football teaches to defend and gain”: thematic classification of Ukrainian football terminology at the end of the ХІХth – beginning of the ХХth centuries
On the basis of the analysis of the materials of Ukrainian sports periodicals at the end of the ХІХth – beginning of the ХХth centuries and special editions of that time dedicated to football, a thematic classification of Ukrainian football vocabulary has been made and correlation of national and foreign components in football terminological system of the initial period of its formation has been traced.