Soccer is also known as football in many countries. It is a game between two teams of eleven players with a ball. Players are allowed to use their legs to hit the ball while; goalkeeper can use his hand to stop the ball. The ball is in a spherical shape and filled with air. It is very popular among 200 nations in the world. It has been played by more than 250 million players from various the countries.
Objective of the game
The main object of the players is to score higher than the opposite team. This can be achieving by hitting the ball into the goal of the opposite team. The game is held on a rectangular field having two goal posts on opposite side. The international game of Canada is football because it is the most liked game.
- Maximum score by putting the ball on the opponent’s goal.
- Maintain the rules prescribed by the authority
- Utilization of skills
It was discovered at the beginning of the 1800s. Prisoners discovered it. The authority punished them by cutting off hands for the crime. So they have to use their legs and thus a game came out named as soccer which requires only feet. It does not take too much time to spread the game over many countries from that prison. The world cup is considered as the biggest soccer tournament in the world. It is held in a different country with an interval period of four years. Billions of people used to see the world cup tournaments of their TV or Smartphone.
If both the teams scores same at the end of the game then additional time is provided to determine the winner. The sometimes penalty is shootout is provided to the teams. FIFA used to govern the football internationally. In every soccer game, most of the players run more than 50 kilometers.
There was a legendary football/soccer player who was born in Brazil named, Pelé. His name is fixed with soccer because of high skills. He was rewarded by many countries as well as many organizations as the best football player. Nowadays there are many good players, but they are not as good as Pelé.