Introduction
Playing football is now treated as a professional career with many professional footballers earning fat checks. It is a form of entertainment and hobby, at the same time taken as full time employment with many footballers earning a living through playing football ball. It is so interesting and entertaining to play, watch and follow if one knows the rules of this game.
History
Traditionally, the playing of football ball was viewed as an extra mural activity at schools where school pupils play this game for socializing, for physic purposes or simply as a way of breaking from studying. This has since developed to a professional level where some learners are now taking football ball playing as a career. In addition soccer school academies are now planted world-wide, promoting football playing as well as nurturing talent from a tender age. Nowadays, football playing is considered to be one of the most paying careers to footballers and soccer coaches. It is also one of the most rewarding curricular for sponsors in terms of corporate image and goodwill. Football competitions are arranged from as lower as school levels through school zonal competitions, country and soccer club level, continental level as well as at the world level which is the soccer world cup competition. Football ball playing is now common to all races and genders as opposed to the traditional set-up where it used to be played by men only.
Features
Playing football ball is an entertaining curricular if one knows how to play as well as its rules. Professionally, it involves two teams of eleven players each and a referee who will monitor and control the proceedings of the match. The referee is assisted by two lines-men as well as a match official. For one team to win it has to score more goals than the other, otherwise if they score the same number of goals or fail to score goals it is recorded as a draw. It is played in a football pitch and the rules are denoted by the lines drawn within the pitch such as the eighteen area and the centre circle.
Playing football has attracted a huge following world-wide, where besides playing the football ball some people enjoy supporting and watching soccer either in the stadium or following the proceedings of a soccer match on various communication channels like televisions and the internet. Other people support soccer teams through membership fee subscriptions and sponsorships which is common to the corporate world.
Why do people play football ball
Football ball is played as a way of socializing among a group of people such as workmates, school mates, school leavers and unemployed people and in such cases the number of players in the playing field might not be important. It is also a form of employment to many people and most people are earning a living through playing football ball. Some people became very rich and popular in the world through playing football. Most people consider a playing soccer as a hobby which they do during spare times like lunch breaks at work or schools and weekend days.
