football

Football (British English football), also known as football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each and some referees dealing with the rules are properly followed. It is widely considered the most popular sport in the world, as practiced by some 270 million people.

The pitch is rectangular natural or artificial turf, with a goal or arc on each side of the field. It is played using a ball to be moved through the field with any part of the body other than the arms or hands, and mostly with their feet (hence its name). The goal is to enter into the opposite goal, action is called score. The team that achieves more goals after the match, lasting 90 minutes, is the winner of the match is.

Football is played by following a set of rules, officially called rules. This sport is played with a spherical ball (leather or other material with a circumference of no more than 70 cm and not less than 68 cm, and weighing not more than 450 g and not less than 410 g at the beginning of the match), where two teams of eleven players each (ten players "field" and a goalie) compete to fit it into the goal and scoring once. The team that has scored more goals late in the game is the winner; if both teams do not score or make the same number of goals, then a tie is declared. There may be exceptions to this rule; Duration and results see below.

The main rule is that players other than the goalkeepers, may not intentionally touch the ball with their hands or arms during play, though they must use their hands to throw-ins.

In a typical game, players try to get the ball to the goal, which is called goal through individual control of it, known as dribbling or passing to teammates or shots on the goal, which is protected for a goalkeeper. The rival players try to regain control of the ball intercepting passes or removing the ball to the player who wears; however, physical contact is limited. The game in soccer flows freely, and stops only when the ball leaves the pitch or when the referee decides he should stop. After each pause, the game with a specific play is restarted. At the end of the match, the referee compensates the total time in minutes that the game was suspended at different times.