Soccer

The topic that I choose for this research is soccer. Soccer is a sport  between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, which makes soccer the more popular sport. People play it on a rectangular field with a goal on each end. Players are not allowed to touch the ball with there arms or hands because they can cause the other team to get a free penalty kick. Each game has a time of 45 minutes for the first game then 10 minutes of half time and the second time is 45 minutes making the game last 2 hours. The team that scores more goals wins. If both teams have the same amount of goals then the game is declared a tie, they might go into extra time or even a penalty shootout depending on the format of the competition. The laws of the game were originally codified on  England by The football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football, which organizes World Cup for both men and women every 4 years. The first game was on December 19, 1863 in Limes Field, Mort lake, London England.