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GAME PLAY The aim of football is to score more goals than opponent in the allocated 90 minutes. The rectangle football pitch is roughly 120 yards longer and 75 yards wider. Each pitch consists of 6 yard box next to the goal mouth, an 18 yard box surrounding the 6 yard box and a center circle (from where penalty shootout is taken).if the ball crosses the side line, throw in is awarded from the particular area and if the ball crosses from the post line, corner is awarded from the corner of the field. If a hand foul is committed excluding goal keeper, free kick is awarded from the particular spot. Football rules ·        A match consist of two halves each of 45 minutes with a 15 minutes of rest periods in between. ·        Each team consist of 11 players including a goalkeeper who is allowed to handle the ball with the hand within the 18 yard box. ·        Each team can name up to 7 substitute players and they can be made at any time of the match where each team can mak
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ORIGIN OF FOOTBALL The contemporary history of the world’s favorite game spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses and the football association in England was formed becoming the sport’s first governing body. The history of English football is a short and detailed one. England was the first country where the game was developed and codified. The modern global game of football was first codified in 1863 in London.                                                   WORLD’S FIRST FOOTBALL Football is also termed as soccer. Soccer is formed from two words socc and er where socc means Ball and er means association. England invented a game of running around kicking a ball in the mid-19 th century. They called it “football”, not because the ball is played with the feet, but because the game is played on football rather on horseback. There are a number of conflicting beliefs co