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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer,[a] is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing team. 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 one of a family of football codes that emerged from various ball games played worldwide since antiquity. Within the English-speaking world, the sport is now usually called "football" in Great Britain and most of Ulster in the north of Ireland, whereas people usually call it "soccer" in regions and countries where other codes of football are prevalent, such as Australia,[8] Canada, South Africa, most of Ireland (excluding Ulster),[9] and the United States. A notable exception is New Zealand, where in the first two decades of the 21st century, under the influence of international television, "football" has been gaining prevalence, despite the dominance of other codes of football, namely rugby union and rugby league.[10]
The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. Initially spelt assoccer, it was later reduced to the modern spelling.[11] This form of slang also gave rise to rugger for rugby football, fiver and tenner for five pound and ten pound notes, and the now-archaic footer that was also a name for association football.[12] The word soccer arrived at its current form in 1895 and was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.[13]
The recognised international governing body of football (and associated games, such as futsal and beach soccer)[c] is FIFA. The FIFA headquarters are located in Zürich, Switzerland. Six regional confederations are associated with FIFA; these are:[139]
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Senior Lauren Walter and junior Renny Buchanan of the John Brown University women's soccer team have been named to the All-America third team, the NAIA national office announced Monday afternoon (Dec. 11).
FOLEY, Ala. -- Despite a goal from freshman Julia Lambert midway through the second half to pull the Golden Eagles to within one, the No. 8 John Brown University women's soccer team couldn't produce any more offense in an attempt to level the score as No. 9 Aquinas pulled off the 2-1 upset on Monday (Nov. 27) afternoon at the Foley Sports Tourism Championship Stadium in the NAIA National Championships Round of 16.
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