Soccer and Football a brief Overview


Football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between twoteams of eleven players with a spherical ball. 
Team members: 11 per side (including goalkeeper)
Equipment: Football (or soccer ball)


Soccer

A form of football played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball which may not be handled during play except by the goalkeepers.


Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer,is a sport played between two teams of elevenplayers with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 nations, 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 theirpenalty area. Outfield players mostly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may also use their head or torso to do so instead. 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 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 (FIFA; French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association), which organises World Cups for both men and women every four years

In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of “football” sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England. Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches. They formed the rules for “Association Football”, with the “Association” distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as “Rugby Football”.
Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common. They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames. Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”. Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.
The term "soccer" originated in English universities in the 1890s and is a shortened version of the sport's full name, Association Football.

It is often wrongly stated in answers"soccer" is only used in the US. This is and always has been incorrect. There are many places in the world where Association Football is not the dominant code and some other type of football has historically been more widely played. These include the USA, Australia and New Zealand. In such countries the generic term "football" commonly refers to the more dominant code, and the term "soccer" is typically used in these places to make clear that the speaker means Association Football.
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