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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.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, [ a] is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a ...
Bending shot / Curl (association football) / Trivela: Sometimes called curve. Any part of the foot can be used to do a bending shot, but using the inside or outside parts produce the most bend. To do a bending shot,the player kicks the sides of the ball at an angle. If he uses the inside of the foot, he wraps his leg around the ball and follows ...
Offside is one of the laws in association football, codified in Law 11 of the Laws of the Game. The law states that a player is in an offside position if any of their body parts, except the hands and arms, are in the opponents' half of the pitch, and closer to the opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent (the last ...
Technical area. A technical area / dugout in association football is an area which a manager, other coaching personnel, and substitutes are allowed to occupy during a match. [ 1] The technical area includes the dugout, bench, and a marked zone adjacent to the pitch. [ 1]
Finding meaning through adversity: “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause ...
A goal kick is awarded to the defending team when the ball goes out of the field of play by crossing, either on the ground or in the air, the goal line, without a goal being scored, when the last player to touch the ball was a member of the attacking team. If the last player to touch the ball was a member of the defending side, a corner kick is ...
Intramural sports are recreational sports organized within a particular institution, usually an educational institution, for the purpose of fun and exercise [ 1][ 2] or a set geographic region. [citation needed] The term, which is chiefly North American, [ 2] derives from the Latin words intra muros meaning "within walls", [ 3][ 4][ 5] and was ...