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Association football, commonly known as football, or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Fundamental rules
1. The side which scores the most goals wins. If scores are equal, the result is a draw. In cup competitions, there may be extra time and penalties to determine a winner. 2. The officials in a football game are a referee and two linesmen. 3. Goals are scored by getting the ball into the opponents' goal, more than halfway across the line. 3.1. In big tournaments, referees can use cameras to check whether a goal was scored. 3.2. The offside rulemeans that there must be at least two defenders be...
Behaviour rules
1. Players may not try to trip, push or hurt other players (a foul). 2. Players may not hold each other or stop other players from getting to the ball (obstruction). 3. When a player scores he/she is not allowed to jump into the crowd. If he/she does they will get a yellow card. The same applies to lifting or removing their shirt in celebration. 4. Players must not try to hurt the referees or say hurtful thingsto the referee. 5. Players who commit bad fouls get shown a yellow card. Players wh...
Football is the world's most popular sport. It is played in more countries than any other game. In fact, FIFA (the Federation Internationale de Football Association) has more members than the United Nations. It was originally an all-male sport, but today it is played by both males and females(separately, except sometimes at primary school level). I...
There are many competitions for football, for both football clubs and countries. Football clubs usually play other teams in their own country, with a few exceptions. Here are a list of some of those exceptions: 1. Welsh teams Cardiff City and Swansea City play in the EFL Championship (the 2nd tier of English league system) and the FA Cup (the Engli...
Iggulden, Hal; Iggulden, Conn (2007). "The Rules of Soccer". The Dangerous Book for Boys. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 27–29. ISBN 978-0061243585.
Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture.
The Football Association (known by its abbreviation The FA) is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its ...
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA / ˈfiːfə /; French for " International Federation of Association Football ") is the organization that controls international football (also called association football ). The organization’s main buildings are in Zürich, Switzerland.
Association football, commonly known as football, or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Association football (founded in Richmond, London at the end of 1800) spread to many other parts of Europe, and was brought to the rest of the world with colonization. Today, it is the most popular sport in the world and many people watch it on television, especially the FIFA World Cup that happens every four years.
