Projectile Motion

Last weekend I went to the football game at CDO and one of the players from CDO kicked the ball really high and it went across the whole court. I observed the projectile motion that the ball had to stay the same way and travel in a parabola shape. Projectile motion is when an object is thrown near the Earth´s surface and gravity acts on the object being thrown which explains why the resultant shape is a parabola. When the player kicked the ball i remembered the video that we watched on class and how the football player kicks the ball in slow motion and the ball goes straight up and then gravity affects and starts coming down.