FOOTBALL
By hariholla
@hariholla (413)
India
29 responses
@kushal3110 (127)
• India
12 Sep 06
Seeing its popularity in most of the countries it can be called a king
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@Lackingstyle (7509)
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26 Sep 06
Football (Soccer if you really must) is the King of football, in most regions anyway, long live the World Cup?
@drmaheshbhagwat (4)
• India
27 Sep 06
Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. The most popular of these worldwide (and by far the most popular sport worldwide) is association football, which can be abbreviated soccer. The English language word football is also applied to rugby football (rugby union and rugby league), North American football (American and Canadian), Australian rules football, and Gaelic football.
Some of the many different codes of football.While it is widely believed that the word football originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.[1] These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played by aristocrats. While there is no conclusive evidence for this explanation, the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has been applied to games which have specifically outlawed kicking the ball. (See football (word) for more details.)
All football games involve scoring with a spherical or prolate spheroid ball (itself called a football), by moving the ball into, onto, or over a goal area or line defended by the opposing team. Many of the modern games have their origins in England, but many peoples around the world have played games which involved kicking and/or carrying a ball since ancient times.
The object of all football games is to advance the ball by kicking, running with, or passing and catching, either to the opponent's end of the field where points or goals can be scored by, depending on the game, putting the ball across the goal line between posts and under a crossbar, putting the ball between upright posts (and possibly over a crossbar), or advancing the ball across the opponent's goal line while maintaining possession of the ball.
In all football games, the winning team is the one that has the most points or goals when a specified length of time has elapsed.
@rajivkumar900 (9860)
• India
17 Dec 06
no i dont think that football is a king of all sports. i think cricket is a king of all sports .
@yugandhar (105)
• India
7 Oct 06
"Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices."
