Football association football also known and called soccer, football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each and four referees dealing with the rules are properly followed. It is widely considered the most popular sport in the world, participate in it about 270 million people.
The rectangular playing field is natural grass or artificial, with a goal on each side of the field. The object is to move to any part of the body except the arms or hands, and feet mostly with a ball across the field to try to enter into the opposing goal, action is called score a goal. The team that achieves the most goals at the end of the match, lasting 90 minutes, is the winner of the match is.
The modern game was created in England following the formation of the Football Association, whose rules of 1863 are the foundation of the sport today. The football governing body is the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, better known by its acronym FIFA.
