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(“association football”, more commonly known as football or soccer, nicknamed The World Game or The Beautiful Game, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players with a spherical ball)
(why not 12 players?)
(it is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, 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 getting 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 only in their penalty area.
Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may also use their head or torso.
The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins.
If the score is level at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time 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)
(leave ‘codification’ to the brits)
(at least historically)
(now it is the jews in charge of ‘codification’)
(as it was in the beginning…)
(is now…)
(and ever shall be…)
(world without end…)
(association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA; French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association), which organises World Cups for both men and women every 4 years)
FC Barcelona wins the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup, becoming the first football team to win six major competitions in a single year
soccer is one of those sports i bet it’s really easy to go pro at. you just have to find yourself at the right pub with the right fat eurocat coach and have him pat you on the back a few times. david beckham seems like a fucking phony to me.
at the same time, its very own populist nature lends itself to considerable fan violence. remember all those years ago when that colombian goalie was murdered by his own people for blowing a game? or even this month, when the Togo national football team withdrew from the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations after an attack on their team bus killed three people and injured several others.
(first grade)
third place trophy in ‘skills’ contest
(judges)
third grade
mister mall team
(played defense)
(johnny mall)
(was that socrates?)
(w / doug stollen)
(‘be aggressive’)
(parents latched onto this exhortation at first practice)
(cory bell as goalkeeper)
(fourth grade)
brother on soccer team
(he scored a goal before me)
(brother played travel soccer)
lauerman as head coach
(fifth grade)
(ball hog)
lockhart as head coach
(sixth grade)
(fantasies of gabby zini @ philips field)
games in berkeley heights
(drowned out)
i coulda been a great soccer player. i chose football instead. sometimes i regret the choice, but i known had i chosen soccer i’d have missed out on the utter intensity of friday nights under the lights. i was a 3-year varsity starter after all. during my sophomore year, the head coach promoted me to the line right up in front of the kickoff returner. which meant (especially with high school kicker) that i was quite likely to have the ball come my way. and two kickoffs did. i dropped both of them. the first was during an away loss to hunterdon central. i allowed danny lizzi (the same little italian muscular fuck who beat me in a wrestle-off that winter to run it instead). the second was a home game. i ended up picking the ball off the ground and rushing for several yards before being thoroughly pummeled…”capture the carrier” indeed!
FIFA world cup
(The International Federation of Association Football)
every 4 years
(since 1930)
(wasn’t played in 1942 and 1946 because of WWII)
brazil won 5 times
(italy won 4 times)
2006 world cup
*ITALY*
2010 world cup
(south africa)
(qualification process began in august 2007)
(11 june – 11 july)
(involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams)
(US defeated by ghana in the quarterfinals)
(last saturday)
(uruguay vs. netherlands)
(and spain vs. germany?)
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