Games
Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world.[1][2][3][4][5] It is a football variant played on a rectangular grass or artificial turf field, with a goal at each of the short ends. The object of the game is to score by manoeuvring the ball into the opposing goal. In general play, the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to use their hands or arms to propel the ball; the rest of the team usually use their feet to kick the ball into position, occasionally using their torso or head to intercept a ball in midair.
Football isn’t the same everywhere you go. To large portions of the global population, football has nothing to do with pigskins and endzones. In the Americanized version of the sport, quite a few rule differences still exist in the game. Check out this section for a detailed explanation of the differences between NFL, College, Canadian and Arena football.The game is divided into fifteen minute quarters with a major break at the thirty minute mark and is called half time. At the end of the 1st and 3rd quarters, the players simply change sides. The ball is moved to the corresponding point on the opposite side of the field, and play then continues.
The Field is 100 yards long (and 160 feet wide). The middle of the field is the 50 yard line. The lines are labeled every 10 yards descending in both directions from the 50 yard line. Thus there are two 40 yard lines and no 60 yard line. Each team owns half of the field (they switch sides every 15 minutes of play). Thus, the two 40 yard lines are distinguished by who owns them. The “zero yard line” is called the goal line. The areas to either side of those 100 yards, extending 10 yards past the goal lines, are called the end zones. Teams try to get the ball past the opponent’s goal line into the end zone to score a touchdown. At far edge of each end zone are the goal posts which, together with the cross bar, look like a big H.
