Football is a family of team sports that involve, to a varying degree, kicking a ball to score a goal.
Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used.
The game that we call soccer is actually something called 'association football'.
A match consists of two 45 minutes halves with a 15 minute rest period in between.
Casual games can be played with hardly ant equipment and a basic game can be played on almost any open space of reasonable size with just a ball and some random items to mark the positions of the goalposts. Such games can have team sizes that vary, they can use a limited or modified version of the official rules.
Here are some facts about Soccer/Football
It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport.
No one knows exactly when soccer was created, but the earliest versions of the game can be traced back 3,000 years.
There have been 21 FIFA world cups, with 2 more currently planned.
These are some of the famous football teams
Real Madrid
Manchester United
Barcelona
Arsenal
Liverpool
Chelsea
This is one of the worlds most famous football players, Lionel Messi
