Soccer

            Soccer is the Worlds most popular sport and also the most spectator sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latin American countries and of many other nations. Millions of people in more than 200 countries play soccer. Most famous international competition is the World Cup. It is held every four years for both men and women. Soccer in every other part of the world is known as football. The word soccer comes from assoc., an abbreviation for association. Soccer is famous from American or Canadian football and from Rugby in that it is primarily played with the feet. Soccer has been played through out the world long before the nineteenth-century middle-class mania for rules and regulations.
             In a soccer game, two teams of eleven players try to kick or head a ball into each other's goal. The team that scores the most goals wins. Players must kick the ball or hit it with their head or body. Only the goalkeepers can touch the ball with their hands and they have to be with in the goal area. Soccer as it is played today developed in the United Kingdom during the 1800's and spread internationally in the 1870's. By the next decade soccer had gained supporters in central Europe, where it eventually became exceptionally popular. Football clubs began to be established in 1855, and the Football Association was established in London in 1863. Until the mid-1900's, the game was not greatly popular in the United States, but today, it is one of the nation's fastest-growing sports. In America it had been popular among native peoples before the Europeans arrived, and it maintained this popularity as the Europeans brought their village games with them to the New World. .
             To be able to play soccer you will need the following things: a ball and a goal. If you can afford it then a uniform which has shorts, socks and cleats. Many people who play in poor countries don't have many of these things. Usually they will just go out with just shorts and some shoes or even bare foot.