Soccer (Football) Popularity
Football is played at a professional level all over the world, and millions of people regularly go to football stadia to follow their favourite team, whilst billions more avidly watch the game on television.
A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level. According to a surveyconducted byFédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), football's governing body, published in the spring of 2001, over 240 million people regularly play football in more than 200 countries in every part of the world. Its simple rules and minimal equipment requirements have no doubt aided its spread and growth in popularity.
In many parts of the world football evokes great passions and plays an important role in the life of individual fans, local communities, and even nations; it is therefore the most popular sport in the world. Because of this it is often dubbed the World's Favourite Pastime.
Latest World Soccer News:
Soccer takes back seat at Olympics (The Uniontown Herald Standard)
Despite being the world's most popular sport, soccer usually takes a back seat at the Olympics, dwarfed by track and field, swimming and gymnastics. Soccer clubs unhappy with stars heading to Olympics (TSN)
LONDON - Despite being the world's most popular sport, football usually takes a back seat at the Olympics, dwarfed in terms of importance by athletics, swimming and even gymnastics. A stroll through Italy and the Serie A (Fox Sports)
Carlo Ancelotti has drawn his first conclusions with the new arrivals at AC Milan, including Flamini and Ronaldinho. U16B soccer loses close one to DL 4-3 (Crookston Daily Times)
Crookston's U16B soccer team dropped a close one in its final regular season game to Detroit Lakes on Monday night by a score of 4-3. If Crookston had won, they would've earned the number one seed in the State Tournament. However, since Crookston lost they will need to earn a berth into the State Tournament through the district playoffs. Star appeal shines through (FIFA)
David Beckham, Ronaldinho, Rogerio Ceni, Abby Wambach and Madjer all hit the headlines in this week's star-studded statistical review. Rwanda: Ntagungira Pass FIFA Tests (AllAfrica.com)
Rwanda's Celestin Ntagungira has been cleared to officiate at the Beijing Olympic Games after successfully passing the Fifa fitness test held on Monday in South Africa. U16B Soccer falls to DL 5-3 (Crookston Daily Times)
Crookston's U16B soccer team lost to Detroit Lakes 5-3 on Saturday. In the first half, Javier Portillo scored for Crookston on an assist from Jordan Brewster and Mariano Portillo scored on a free kick in front of the net. West girls win in soccer; Boys end in scoreless tie (Burlington Times-News)
GREENSBORO - Charlotte Hopewell's Lena Suarez scored the lone goal to lead the West team past the East 1-0 in the North Carolina East-West All-Star Game for girls' soccer Tuesday night at UNC Greensboro. FIFA clarify rules over releasing players for Beijing (Tribalfootball.com)
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has stepped in to try to head off a growing revolt by clubs over the release of players for the Beijing Olympics. Blatter has sent a letter to all member associations saying the release of players aged 23 or under is mandatory for the Olympics. Clubs must release players for Olympics - FIFA (ESPN Soccernet.com)
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday that clubs must release their eligible Under-23 players for the Olympic soccer tournament despite the claims of Europe's leading clubs that they were under no obligation to do Cannavaro Tapping Up Ronaldo Now
Fresh from his own tapping up storm in England over Tottenham's Dimitar Berbatov, Sir Alex Ferguson will have went even redder in the face if he read today's Sun newspaper... Chelsea Massive Bid For Kaka
AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani has said that Chelsea have made an "astronomical bid" for Brazilian World Player of the Year Kaka and there is also interest in their Italian... Soccer: A Goal Within Reach (The Miami Hurricane)
After a 2007 season where the Hurricanes saw significant improvements, putting together a 9-6-4 record, including a 4-4-2 recording in the every-tough Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Hurricanes will look to build upon their success and continue to climb up the ladder to supremacy in the ACC and in the NCAA. Generated by JohnEdwardsProperties.com - The real estate in annapolis expert.
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