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Soccer, you can also call it football is the most popular ball-game in the world. Every team has 10 players and 1 goalkeeper. In Europe and South-America football is the most popular sport. In North-America, Asia and Africa football is becoming more popular. Since 1930 the best national teams try to win the world-cup-trophy. The first world champion was Uruguay and the best nation is Brazil with 4 titles, 2 second and 2 third positions. The best position for Austria was a 3rd place in 1954. Since the first participation of an African team for a world-cup quarterfinal in 1990 Africa is allowed to enter 2 teams for a world-cup. The team that reached the quarter- final was Cameroon. France won the last world-cup in 1998.
THE SYSTEMS: Football has developed from offensive to defensive. Until 1950 most teams played the 'WM'-system.
That means: 5 forwards in form of a 'W' and 5 full-backs in form of a 'M'. And since 1960 most teams play with 4 full-backs, 3 centres and 3 forwards.
The international associations: The international associations are the UEFA and the FIFA. UEFA is the abbreviation for Union of European-Football-Association. The UEFA is responsible for European-League and cup-games.
The UEFA was founded in 1954 in Basel and the committee is in Bern.
The 2nd association is the FIFA. FIFA is the abbreviation for Federation-International-Football-Association, it is the football-world association. It was founded in1904 in Basel and the committee is in Zurich.
Finances: Most teams sell their matches to TV-stations. In about 8 years the teams from Germany earns more than 5 billion Schilling and for this reason the team-budgets have increased, and the teams are able to buy players that cost more than 100 million öS.
The most expensive player in the world is Ronaldo, he came from Barcelona to Inter Mailand. The experts say that nobody will be more expensive than Ronaldo because many teams have economic problems.
The bad sides of football: The bad side of football are the disasters. Here are some examples:
1964 in Lima in Peru 350 people died.
1971 in the Glasgow Ibrox Park 66 fans died because of an broken railing.
1985 in Bradford 52 fans died because the grandstand burned down. Also in 1985 in Brussels 39 fans died.
The rules: The most important rules were layed down in 1894 and since that time there are only small changes.
The most important rule is the offside rule. I will try to explain it: When a player gets the ball, he is in offside when, in the moment that the ball is given to him no opponent is between him and the goalkeeper. But the rule doesn't count when an opponent plays the ball to him. In the own half the rule doesn't count too.
Some facts: The first football-team in the world is FC Sheffield. It was founded in 1855.
The first rules were layed down in 1862.
The first international match was in 1872. The teams names are Scotland and England and the match ended in a draw.
Since 1877 the referees use red cards.
The first German football-team was FC Hanover and it was founded in 1878.
The 1st Austrian football-team was Vienna. It was founded in 1894.
Rapid Vienna was founded in 1899 and this year Rapid has the 100th birthday.
Since 1900 football is in the Olympic program.
The FIFA was founded in 1904.
The 1st world-cup was in 1930.
The 1st Championsleague-match was in1955.
Since 1967 every team is allowed to exchange 2 players and 1 goalkeeper.
The 1st Europeanleague-championship was in 1968.
The 1st international indoor-match was in1993.
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