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An exceptional case is the largely Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico, where the word football is used in the Puerto Rican Football Federation, while the word soccer is used in the Puerto Rico Soccer League, the Puerto Rican 1st division; however, its 2nd division is named Liga Nacional de Futbol de Puerto Rico.
Football is the most popular sport in Brazil and a prominent part of the country's national identity. The Brazil national football team has won the FIFA World Cup five times, the most of any team, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. [5]
Night view of Maracanã Stadium, June 2013.. Football is considered one of the greatest sports in South America. [1] [2] Football was first introduced to the continent during the nineteenth century, as part of the worldwide diffusion of British culture initiated by the British diaspora and subsequent acceptance of the sport by the region's Anglophile elite.
The Copa América, initially called South American Football Championship, was the first competition involving national football teams; since 1916, it has involved South American countries. Between its first edition until 1949, Brazil was champion only three times in 21 occasions in which the tournament was held.
Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died in Sao Paulo on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. He was 82.
Within the English-speaking world, the sport is now usually called "football" in Great Britain and most of Ulster in the north of Ireland, [9] whereas people usually call it "soccer" in regions and countries where other codes of football are prevalent, such as Australia, [10] Canada, South Africa, most of Ireland (excluding Ulster), [11] and ...
Carli Lloyd's three-goal explosion in the first half of the Women's World Cup Final on Sunday was one of the greatest sports accomplishments we've seen in recent history. As such, it was greeted ...
Carmona, 23, scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over England on Aug. 20 that gave Spain its first World Cup title. After the game, she was informed of her father's death, the team said.