Football (soccer)

Association football, soccer, or simply football is a team sport played between two teams each consisting of eleven players.

It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass (sometimes artificial turf) field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by maneuvering the spheroid ball into the opposing goal. Other than the goalkeepers, players may not use their hands or arms to propel the ball in general play. The winner of the match is the team that has scored most goals at the end of the match.

The sport is known by many names throughout the English-speaking world, although football is the most common. Other names, such as association football and soccer, are often used to distinguish the game from other codes of football, since the word football may be used to refer to several quite different games.

Latest Soccer (football) News:

From Bad To Worse For Brazil's Ronaldo
Just when you think the biggest problem in your life is the career threatening knee injury that could bring a premature end to a football career that brimmed with so...

Jonah Freedman: Real Madrid rubs in 31st title with Barca drubbing (Sports Illustrated)
I've lost count of how many times I've heard friends and family whine to me about how foreign a sport soccer is. It's futile to get defensive because they're wrong and right at the same time.

Parreira's South African Future In The Balance
South Africa's preparations for hosting the 2010 World Cup could be thrown into complete disarray this week as their high profile coach Carlos Alberto Parreira could be set to leave...

Argentina still No. 1 in latest FIFA rankings (Sports Illustrated)
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) -- Argentina remained No. 1 in the largely unchanged FIFA world rankings Wednesday, with the United States at No. 21.

Barcelona Replace Rijkaard As Head Coach (Forbes)
Two seasons without a trophy are too many for the storied Catalonian club.

Croatia's Modric Signs For Spurs
I wrote back in December that the Dinamo Zagreb president had allegedly turned down an offer of £35m for the club's star playmaker Luka Modric and that the diminutive midfielder...

PREP BOYS' SOCCER: One-goal loss ends Ferndale’s season (The Bellingham Herald)
Ryan Olson scored twice and gave Meadowdale enough to end Ferndale’s season with a 2- 1 win in a loser-out game of the Class 3A Northwest District boys’ soccer tournament at Edmonds Stadium on Thursday.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter calls for limit on Europe soccer's power (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
GENEVA - FIFA president Sepp Blatter renewed his campaign Wednesday to stop European soccer clubs from hoarding most of the world's best players.

L.D. BELL SOCCER: Bell's Brooks finds fun way to succeed (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By TOBIAS XAVIER LOPEZ GIRLS PLAYER OF THE YEAR KARA BROOKS, HURST L.D. BELL Kara Brooks made her mark with a smile for Hurst L.D. Bell, scoring the most goals among area Class 5A forwards. Her 32 goals made her the only local 5A attacker to top the 30-goal threshold. In her senior year, she led the Lady Raiders to the District 7-5A championship while remembering that soccer's supposed to be ...

Drop foreign player limits, Euro Parliament tells FIFA (winnipegsun.com)
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Parliament has called on FIFA to scrap its plan to reintroduce limits on foreign players in club competitions. The world soccer federation has advocated a new rule in which a team's 11-man starting lineup should include six players from the club's nation.

Champion Madrid bids to crown perfect week with victory at Zaragoza (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
MADRID, Spain - Newly proclaimed champion Real Madrid can complete a perfect week when it visits lowly Zaragoza in the Spanish league's penultimate round on Sunday.

Have Celtic Really Pegged Rangers Back In Scotland?
A few week's ago it looked all over for defending Scottish champions Celtic but after two thrilling victories over Old Firm rivals Rangers in recent weeks it is the Bhoys...

Mascherano Wants To Play In Beijing Olympics
Liverpool's Argentinian midfielder Javier Mascherano has decided that he wants to miss the start of next season's English Premier League season so he can pursue an Olympic gold medal as...

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