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Association football, more commonly known asfootball orsoccer, is ateam sport played between two teams of 11players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel aball around a rectangular field called apitch.
The objective of the game is toscore more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framedgoal defended by the opponent. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport.
Association football is played in accordance with theLaws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by theIFAB since 1886. The game is played with a football that is 68–70 cm (27–28 in) incircumference. The two teams compete to score goals by getting the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts, under the bar, and fully across the goal line). When the ball is in play, the players mainly use their feet, but may also use any other part of their body, except for their hands or arms, to control, strike, or pass the ball; the head, chest, and thighs are commonly used. Only thegoalkeepers may use their hands and arms, but they may use their hands only within their ownpenalty area. The team that has scored more goals at the end of the game is the winner. Depending on the format of the competition, an equal number of goals scored may result in adraw being declared with 1 point awarded to each team, or the game may go intoextra time or apenalty shoot-out. (Full article...)
Founded in 1902, Norwich have played their home games atCarrow Road since1935, a ground that was constructed in just 82 days. Its record attendance of 43,984 was achieved in 1963 for anFA Cup game againstLeicester City. Following new legislation and redevelopment into an all-seated stadium, its current capacity is 26,034.
The club have a long-standing rivalry withEast Anglian neighboursIpswich Town, with whom they contest theEast Anglian Derby. Other teams in the area also compete with Norwich for the informalPride of Anglia award. (Full article...)
Frank Barson (10 April 1891 – 13 September 1968) was anEnglishfootballer born inGrimesthorpe. He started life as a blacksmith, and began his football career withSheffield amateur clubs Albion FC and Cammell Laird's before joiningBarnsley in 1911. He went on to play for a number of clubs in English football includingManchester United andAston Villa, with whom he won theFA Cup in 1920.
Barson was known as one of the most feared players of his era, and had a reputation as a "hard man" of English football. On frequent occasions Barson was escorted out of grounds by policemen to protect him from mobs of angry opposition fans and he was once banned from the game for seven months for a challenge in a match against Fulham.
He played up until the age of 39, eventually signing on as an amateur withWigan Borough and his last ever appearance as a player was in a game againstAccrington Stanley onBoxing Day 1930 in which he was sent off in the 83rd minute. (Full article...)
TheUnion of European Football Associations (UEFA/juːˈeɪfə/yoo-AY-fə;French:Union des associations européennes de football;German:Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance inassociation football. It governs football,futsal andbeach football inEurope and thetranscontinental countries ofTurkey,Azerbaijan,Georgia andKazakhstan, as well as theWest Asian countries ofCyprus,Armenia andIsrael. UEFA consists of 55 national associationmembers. Since 2022, due to theRussian invasion of Ukraine,FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national teams and clubs from any FIFA and UEFA competitions.UEFA consists of the national football associations of Europe, and runs national and club competitions including theEuropean Championship,Nations League,Champions League,Europa League,Conference League, andSuper Cup, and also controls the prize money, regulations, as well as media rights to those competitions.
Henri Delaunay acted as the first general secretary andEbbe Schwartz as the firstpresident. The current president isAleksander Čeferin, a former Football Association of Slovenia president, who was elected as UEFA's seventh president at the 12th ExtraordinaryUEFA Congress inAthens in September 2016, and automatically became a vice-president of the world body FIFA. (Full article...)
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The2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, the fifth edition of theFIFA Women's World Cup, was an internationalfootball competition for women held in China from 10 to 30 September 2007. Originally, China was to host the2003 edition, but theoutbreak ofSARS in that country forced that event to be moved to the United States.FIFA immediately granted the 2007 event to China, which meant that no new host nation was chosen competitively until the voting was held for the2011 Women's World Cup.
The tournament opened with a record-breaking match inShanghai, asGermany beatArgentina 11–0 to register the biggest win and the highest scoring match inWomen's World Cup history, records which stood until 2019. The tournament ended with Germany defeatingBrazil 2–0 in thefinal, without conceding even a single goal in the entire tournament. The Germans became the first national team inFIFA Women's World Cup history to retain their title. (Full article...)
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