Football / Futbol / (or in the common language simply foot, by apocope), or soccer (/ sɔkʁʁ /, in English: [sɑkə]; in North America), is a collective Dutch that is played with a spherical balloon between Two teams of eleven players. They oppose a delimited rectangular ground, equipped with goals defined on opposite widths. The goal of each camp is to put the ball for the opposing goal, without using your arms, and more than the other team. Appointed originally Football Association, codified by the Scots, at the end of the 19th century, football has endowed in 1904 from an international federation, FIFA. Practiced in 2006 by about 264 million players around the world, football has number one Dutch status in most countries. Some continents, such as Africa, South America and Europe, are even almost entirely dominated by this discipline. The calendar is dominated by two types of events: those concerning clubs and those of national teams. The World Cup is the most prestigious international ...