The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to association football:
Association football – sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. At the turn of the 21st century, the game was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport.[1][2][3][4] More commonly known as football or soccer.
What type of thing is association football?
Association football can be described as all of the following:
- Exercise – bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness.
- Aerobic exercise – physical exercise that intends to improve the oxygen system.[5] Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's energy-generating process (the citric acid cycle).
- Game – structured activity, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more concerned with the expression of ideas. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional sports).
- Ball game – game played with a ball.
- Sport – form of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants.
- Competitive sport – sport in which one or more participants or teams compete against one another. The one that is the most successful in achieving the objective of the game or sport event is the winner.
- Team sport – sport that involves players working together towards a shared objective.
- Recreational sport – sport engaged in as a leisure time activity.
- Spectator sport – sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its matches. Spectator sports are a form of entertainment.
- Professional sport – sport in which the athletes receive payment for their performance.
Equipment of the game
- Association football pitch (playing field) –
- Football –
- Kit – standard equipment and attire worn by players.
Rules of the game
Laws of the game – the rules.
- Law 1: The Field of Play
- Law 2: The Ball
- Law 3: The Number of Players
- Law 4: The Players' Equipment
- Law 5: The Referee
- Law 6: The Assistant Referees
- Law 7: The Duration of the Match
- Law 8: The Start and Restart of Play
- Law 9: The Ball In and Out of Play
- Law 10: The Method of Scoring
- Law 11: Offside
- Law 12: Fouls and Misconduct
- Law 13: Free kicks (direct and indirect)
- Law 14: The Penalty Kick
- Law 15: The Throw-In
- Law 16: The Goal Kick
- Law 17: Corner kick
Game play
Strategy
Tactics and techniques
- Association football tactics and skills
- Anti-football
- Behind The Leg Flip Flap
- Bicycle kick
- History of the bicycle kick
- Catenaccio
- Combination Game
- Corner kick
- Cruijff Turn
- Curl (football)
- Direct free kick
- Diving (football)
- Flip flap (association football)
- Flo Pass
- Formation (association football)
- Last man (football)
- Long ball
- Marseille turn
- Nutmeg (football)
- One touch (association football)
- Passing (association football)
- Pelé runaround move
- Push and run
- Rabona
- Rainbow kick
- Revie Plan
- Seal dribble
- Shooting (association football)
- Sliding tackle
- Step over
- Tiki-taka
- Total Football
- Volley (football)
- Work rate
History of association football
Association football around the world
- Association football around the world
- Names for association football (what it is called, where)
Association football organizations
Association football publications
Persons influential in association football
Contributors
Players
Coaches
See also
References
- ^ "Overview of Soccer". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/550852/football. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
- ^ Guttman, Allen (1993). "The Diffusion of Sports and the Problem of Cultural Imperialism". In Eric Dunning, Joseph A. Maguire, Robert E. Pearton. The Sports Process: A Comparative and Developmental Approach. Champaign: Human Kinetics. p. 129. ISBN 0-88011-624-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=tQY5wxQDn5gC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=world's+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=6ns3wVUEGV&sig=SZPKYSDMJBrO1uV4mPxNbKyAuJY#PPA129,M1. Retrieved 2008-01-26. "the game is complex enough not to be invented independently by many preliterate cultures and yet simple enough to become the world's most popular team sport"
- ^ Dunning, Eric (1999). "The development of soccer as a world game". Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation. London: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 0-415-06413-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=X3lX_LVBaToC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=world's+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=ehee9Lr9o1&sig=nyvDhcrPoR8lXhYKE7k4CZYg_qU#PPA103,M1. Retrieved 2008-01-26. "During the twentieth century, soccer emerged as the world's most popular team sport"
- ^ Mueller, Frederick; Cantu; Van Camp, Steven (1996). "Team Sports". Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports. Champaign: Human Kinetics. p. 57. ISBN 0-87322-674-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=XG6AIHLtyaUC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=soccer+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=QzydYB5Am0&sig=w_ouIgmegjytYFfWy7k92guTNfU#PPA57,M1. Retrieved 2008-01-26. "Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and is an industry worth over US$400 billion world wide. 80% of this is generated in Europe, though its popularity is growing in the United States. It has been estimated that there were 22 million soccer players in the world in the early 1980s, and that number is increasing. In the United States soccer is now a major sport at both the high school and college levels"
- ^ Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)
External links
- This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
- Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)
- The Current Laws of the Game (LOTG)
- The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF)
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