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2. Association football - Wikipedia

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   Football (or soccer ball) Football boots Shin pads Kits Gloves (for goalkeepers) Venue: Football pitch (also known as football field, football ground, soccer field, soccer pitch, or "pitch") Glossary: Glossary of association football: Presence; Country or region: Worldwide: Olympic: Men's since the 1900 Olympics and women's since the 1996 ...

3. History of association football - Wikipedia

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   The history of association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, stretches back to at least medieval times. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] FIFA cites Cuju in ancient China is the earliest form of a kicking game for which there is scientific evidence, a military manual from the Han dynasty , and it closely resembles modern association football.

4. Timeline of association football - Wikipedia

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   Juventus becomes the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major confederation competitions after defeating Liverpool 1–0 in that match, as well as the first in association football history to have won all possible international competitions [8] [9] [10] after defeating Argentinos Juniors 6–4 (2–2 a.e.t.) in ...

5. English football on television - Wikipedia

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   The demand for live televised football grew in the wake of England’s World Cup success, though the authorities remained reluctant. In April 1967, the Football League Management Committee rejected a £1m offer from BBC Television to show live League football on Thursday nights. They did, however, experiment with pay-per-view broadcasting.

6. Football - Wikipedia

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   The various codes of football share certain common elements and can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved ...

7. History of the FIFA World Cup - Wikipedia

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   Despite soccer's relative lack of popularity in the host nation, the tournament was the most financially successful [28] [29] in World Cup history; it broke tournament records with overall attendance of 3,587,538 and an average of 68,991 per match, [30] marks that stood unbroken as of 2018 [31] despite the expansion of the competition from 24 ...

8. The World Game - Wikipedia

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   The World Game was an Australian football (soccer) television show broadcast on the SBS network, as well as a dedicated associated website.The show debuted in September 2002 and was the only Australian TV program dedicated to both football news and issues within Australia as well as around the world.

9. Football (word) - Wikipedia

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   In those two countries, other codes of football are dominant, and soccer is the prevailing term for association football. In 2005, Australia's association football governing body changed its name from soccer to football to align with the general international usage of the term. [1] In 2006, New Zealand decided to follow suit. [2]