Football is an extremely popular game nowadays and many boys and girls seem to be crazy fans of the sport. They watch it, they wear it and they play it hence they support it any way that they can. It is played and watched today by millions of people all over the world, in every continent. With the hype surrounding the sport, along with the TV deals, advertisements, sponsorships and so on, many top football players earn millions of dollars through the game of football. It has become internationally recognized and liked by people and so is quite popular especially when it comes to teenagers. Fans want shirts, mugs, balls, pens anything that they can get their hands on which is associated with their favorite football team.
As to its history, football has been around for a long time and some experts say that it was as early as the 1500’s when the game of football was invented however, there are no confirmations regarding this factor. This is largely because other parts of the world such as Rome and Greece have signs of playing a similar game around the same time frame. Each game has its own set of rules, strategies and tactics and football is no different from any other sport. The game of football has its own set of rules, which may vary slightly from country to country or state to state since there are many variations of football today as well. However all the rules are linked together with the fact that the ball needs to be kicked from one end of the field to the other and both teams try to goal as many goals as they can. In earlier times, the game of football could last for days before a winner was announced and instead of a ball made of leather, a pig’s bladder was used.
During the mid 1800’s some international standard laws began to be introduced which made the game of football uniform for anyone who chose to play it. Supervisors set the length of the how long and broad the playing field could be and the total period of time the game would be set on so as to avoid having to continue the game for days on end. Since there was uniformity, the game of football was easier to play since then everybody had to follow the same set of rules. The game of football is basically played between two opposing teams’ o f eleven players each. The playing field is a pitch filled with grass with two goal nets at each end of the field. The aim of the game is to score goals and the highest number of goals scored by a team decides the winner. Both teams will try to stop each other from trying to goal in opposing ends.
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The total length of the game is ninety minutes and only the goalie or goal keeper is allowed to use his hands to prevent a team from goaling. You can even go online and look up the various rules and regulations regarding football.
