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A player doing a keepie-uppie. Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. [1] A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture.
A chess boxing match in Berlin, 2008. Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. [1] [2] Two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout.
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion (s). Each match-up may be a single match or several ...
The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) is an informal way of calculating the world's best international association football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in professional boxing. [1]
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, as well as fighting -based video games. A full knockout is considered any legal strike or combination ...
The buzz: Racing Louisville’s Ary Borges, one of 61 NWSL players called up for the World Cup, had a hat trick in Brazil’s 4-0 opening-game win over Panama. Brazil outshot Panama 32-6 in that ...
Boxing[ b ] is a combat sport and martial art. [ 1 ] Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to western boxing, in ...
LYON, France — Sophia Smith rescued the U.S. women’s national team from a second straight Olympic soccer slog here on Tuesday, and sent the Americans to their first gold-medal final since 2012 ...