Sports

Soccer/football

Soccer/football

Football is a team sport that is played between two teams, each consisting of eleven players. You play with a ball. Football is played by 250 million players in more than two hundred countries around the world, so it is the most popular and widespread sport in the world.


It is one of the most popular and widespread team sports in the world, as it is played by about 250 million players in nearly two hundred countries.

The English Football Association established the laws of football in 1863 in England

The most popular game all over the world; It occupies the largest number of followers and the largest number of players who practice it. According to the reports of the International Football Association, the number of players who play this game at the end of the twentieth century reached about 250 million and more than 1.3 billion followers and spectators, and football is a sport within everyone’s reach where it can be practiced. In different places such as gymnasiums, official stadiums, or even streets, parks, or many other places. Football is a team sport based on the principle of cooperation and team spirit, where two teams are formed, each consisting of eleven players, who pass the ball while with the aim of inserting it into the opponent’s goal.

The Rules of Football

A player is not allowed to hit another player, which may lead him to take yellow or red cards. To play the ball with his foot while it is in the air, but it must touch the ground first before it reaches the player. When the ball comes out of a player outside the line of contact, he himself throws the throw-in, but by hitting it with his foot towards the center and throws it straight forward. If a goal is scored, the team starts to play again with a goal kick. There is no corner kick

The goalkeeper is the only player who is allowed to touch the ball with his hands or arms

The goalkeeper is the only player who is allowed to touch the ball with his hands or arms

He may be replaced by another player, and if anyone other than the main players enters the field, the referee must intervene to remove him from the field.

All starting and reserve players are under the authority of the match referee

In the event that he is expelled after his name is on the list, he can be replaced by another player without counting this procedure as an official substitution

 In the event that there is a tie between the two teams in the number of goals scored, the match will be extended to extra time

Match duration

45 minutes and the second 45 minutes, instead of that, we get 90 minutes.

The match is divided into two halves, the first and the second. We have the first with 45 minutes and the second with 45 minutes. Instead, we get 90 minutes, but sometimes it can reach more than 100 minutes because of what may happen in the match, and the referee can add more than 10 minutes in the first and second half.

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