Sports curiosities + past perfect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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