An essay about football (0)

The Essay
Football is the worlds most popular sport. In every four years the world cup is held and every year regional cups are held. Rules are update and followed by FIFA(Federal International Football Association. The game needs good teamwork and skills with a standard size 5 ball. The goal ist o get the ball in the oponents goal and defend your own. Players are allowed to use any part of the body exept arms. When the ball crosses the order of the pitch the ball is given to the team that asnt the last one to touch the ball. A goal is counted when the 2/3 of the ball cosses the white line between the two goal posts.
The game is played with 11 men On a side and 2 teams . The field is a rectangle with a boxy gate called a goal in the middle of the shorter lines. Both teams are allowed one player to play with any part of the body in the box surrounding their goal on their side of the pitch. That player is called a goalkeeper and often hei s also the captain . There are also defenders,midfielders and strikers and players that have 2 roles at the time. For example a defensive midfielder or a forward midfielder etc.The psition of each player in the line-up is selected by the couch who can also have assistent couches. The game has to have 3 refrees: the main refree who makes the decisions (penalty kick,offside, throw in, goalkick, corner , foul etc.) and 2 sideline refrees,who’s main job is too look for offsides or assist the main refree with decisions. The game is played in 2 halfs, 45 minutes each. In the end of each half the refree decides how many minutes to add to the game because of delays. Usually it is between 1 and 4 minutes. When the ball crosses the sideline, the ball is thrown back into play by a player and if the ball crosses the line behind the goal, it played in from a corner by the attacking team or by the goalkeeper from a smaller bow inbetween the 2 posts.
A foul- a foul is whistled by the refree when any player or couch deliberetly or acidentaly reaks any of the rules. The punishment is either loosing posession of the ball or a warning witch can be pooked with a fellow or red card. Red card means that the player has to leave the pitch and hes team will play with one player less. If a foul is made inside one’s own goalkeeper(penalty)box, it means instantly a freekick from a certain distance and no players allowed exept the goalkeeper to defend the goal.
Offside- offside means that the team causing a offside has to hand the ball over to the oponent. An offside isi s whistleled or usually shown with a flag by the assistent refree when a player is closer to the opponents goal at the time of the pass then any ohter oponent exept goalkeepr. An offside doesn’t count when the player passing the ball is also in offside.
Substitution - A substitution is made by the couch. It means that he can replace one player in his/her team incase he wants too or a player cant continou playing. In official matches up to 3 substitutions are allowed in a game and the decision is made during the game vased on the players performance. Usuallt the substitute bench consists of 1 goalkeeper,2 defenders 2 midfielders and 2 strikers. Rarely a team has to substitute both goalkeepers and a player whos not originaly a goalkeeper will have to do his best .
Football unites peole and motivates peole to do sports . The down side is that during International matches where the competeing nations are represented by their best players, spectators often get furius and cause huge ight between fans to settle the game with fists. Football can make people cheer and unite peole.