Popularity of soccer:
Soccer is a very popular game and is mostly referred to as football outside of United States. Soccer originated many centuries ago and is played all over the world by not only by professional but by college students and even children. And such popularity and craziness of people all over the world swells up by leaps and bounds every four years at the most watched event of the world, the FIFA world cup.
History of soccer:
Wikipedia will tell you that soccer or football was born in England in the year 1863 but to be honest it dates long back. In second century Before Christ, the Han Dynasty had a similar game known as the tsu' chu. Then many centuries later the Japanese started playing a game called the Kemari. Then in the middle ages in Europe, came a violent game known as the mob football.
Rules of the game:
The main objective of the game is to score goals and whoever scores more goals is the winner. There have to be two teams both having eleven players. The two teams keep moving and passing the ball from one player to another so that one can kick the ball inside the goal to score a goal. The goal is a framework which has a height of 8 feet and a width of 24 feet.
One player guards the goal and is known as the goalkeeper. All the players except the goalkeeper have to use their legs and heads or chest to hit the. The goalkeeper can use his hands. The game is usually if 90 minutes with two halves of 45 minutes.
The whole football ground is not used; the game is played within a rectangular field whose width varies between 50 to 100 yards and the length is about 100 to 130. The measurement of the field is determined how close the audience will listen to the players. The audience should not be very far from the field then it will be hard to see the match or be too close to the players.