Sports curiosities + past perfect

Before being called volleyball, the sport had been named...

Before 2018, Russia had already hosted the world cup twice.

By the first female soccer match in Brazil, women had played among men for the same team.

When the first female volleyball championship happened, the first male one had happened...

Nowadays the basketball teams have ______ players on court, but they had been created with 9.

When volleyball was created in 1985, the basketball had already been invented 4 years before.

The Olympic Games returned in 1896, but they had been created around...

By the time Internacional was founded Grêmio had already won...

Tennis balls, which are ______________ had been created in white at first.