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Football is a family of team sports in which the object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts using merely the body.
Association (soccer)
Australian rules
Gaelic (GAA)
Gridiron (American / Canadian)
Association football
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Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who mostly use their feet to kick an inflated ball around a pitch.
Football
…the word football generally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic…
The attacking player (No. 10) attempts to score a goal by kicking the ball into the net behind the opposing team's goalkeeper.
Calcio match in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, in Florence, Italy. Painting by Jan Van der Straet.
An early draft of the original hand-written "Laws of the Game", drawn up on behalf of the Football Association by Ebenezer Cobb Morley in 1863, on display at the National Football Museum in Manchester.
The Aston Villa team in 1897, after winning both the FA Cup and the English Football League