Reuters
| May 14, 2013
The Paris police chief has banned all celebrations for the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team after fans partying to mark PSG's league win turned violent, injuring 33 people, including three police officers. Some 21 fans have been arrested on s...
LinkAsia
| May 10, 2013
Football fans across Asia offered a flood of praise and fond farewells to Sir Alex Ferguson, after the 71-year-old manager announced he was stepping down after 26 years at the helm of the world-famous English club Manchester United. Ferguson's ...
Sky News
| Apr 22, 2013
Youch. Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been hailed as a superstar, but he's got one odd habit: He bites opposing players. Suarez can be seen "sinking his gnashers" into the arm of Chelsea player Branislav Ivanovic in a weekend match in this vide...
eNews Channel Africa
| Apr 11, 2013
Nigeria's national soccer team, better known as the Super Eagles, won this year's Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa. But now the team has come crashing back down to earth with the news that the Nigeria Football Federation is broke. It has had ...
ITN News
| Mar 28, 2013
Andrew Cassidy, a 280-pound, unemployed, 50-year-old man from the small town of Milford Haven in South Wales, has become an unlikely internet star after a secret video of him practising his football skills in a car park went viral. He has been dub...
International Business Times
| Mar 20, 2013
David Beckham, China's newly appointed "Global Ambassador for Soccer," has launched a bid to revive the sport's grassroots popularity in China and the Chinese league's image internationally following a major match-fixing scandal.
LinkAsia
| Feb 8, 2013
The soccer world was rocked earlier this week by the announcement from Europol that an investigation has uncovered at least 680 cases of fixed soccer matches around the globe. LinkAsia speaks with journalist Declan Hill, author of "The Fix: Soccer...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 11, 2013
Egyptian football fans are facing a bittersweet celebration after a year without a national league. All competition was suspended after more than 70 fans were killed in a pitch invasion in the city of Port Said. Now domestic games are finally set ...
Al Jazeera English
| Dec 17, 2012
Morocco is the location for arguably the biggest derby in African football.
Casablanca stands still twice a year when arch rivals Raja and Wydad play each other.
But it is not just pride that is at stake.
Al Jazeera's Sana Hamouche reports from...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Dec 4, 2012
The Dutch community of Almere is in shock after an assistant referee for his son's youth soccer team was fatally kicked and punched during a match by players on an opposing Amsterdam team, said officials. "This is not only a tragedy for Almere and...
— Feb 2, 2012 at 01:03 pm
A three-day mourning has been announced in Egypt due to the tragedy at the Port-Said stadium where over 70 people were killed and about 1,000 injur...
— Feb 6, 2012 at 11:00 am
— May 9, 2012 at 08:30 am
— Feb 13 at 12:45 am
...turned up at a stadium in Damascus to watch Al-Wathba from Homs play Al-Jazeera of Al-Hasakah. Played to a backdrop of distant artillery fire, i...
Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by kicking the ball into the opposing goal.
The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play and then only in their penalty area. Outfield players mostly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may use their head to strike the ball instead. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout depending on the format of the competition. The Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football which organises a World Cup every four years.
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