With over three billion fans, soccer, also known in some places as football, is one of the most popular sports around the world.
This is a sport played between two teams of 11 players. There are over 250 million players in over 200 countries.
The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The objective of the game is to score by getting the ball into the other team’s goal.
Players can use any part of their bodies except for the hands and arms to move the ball. Goalkeepers, however, are allowed to use their hands and arms to touch the ball when they are in the penalty area.
Soccer has the highest number of fans in almost all regions of the world.
Whenever there is a regional or global competition such as the World Cup, billions of fans around the world are hooked on the TV.
Soccer is also the most accessible sport in the world. Amateurs can play it easily because all that is needed is a ball and two goal posts. This is why it is popular in both developed countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan as well as developing countries like Somlia, Ethopia, Congo and Libya.
According to sporteology.com, every country in every continent has a national soccer or football body and there is a professional league in every country. The average salary of athletes in the top European leagues is in the millions of dollars. The salaries are pretty big in other leagues around the world as well.
A majority of the places around the world have both men’s and women’s teams. It has to be said that men’s soccer is still growing and more and more women around the world are getting attracted to soccer.
At Elizabethtown College, there are men’s and women’s teams that compete in the Landmark Conference.
This fall, the men’s team had an overall record of 10-7-2 and the women’s team had an overall of 9-7-1. There are also intramural teams on campus in the fall that any student can participate in.
You can look out for all the soccer events on campus during the fall of next school year.
