...Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including association football, as well as American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league, rugby union[1] and other related games. These variations of football are known as football codes. Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.[2][3] The influence and power of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread, including to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire,[4] though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic Football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage.[5] In 1888, The Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional football competitions. In the twentieth century, the various codes of football have become amongst the most popular team sports in the...
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...the latissimus dorsi. The articulating bones in the elbow are the humerus and the ulna. The action is extension and the agonist muscle is the triceps brachii. The joints and articulating bones involved in the throwing phase are the same as the preparatory phase. The action in the throwing phase in the shoulder is horizontal flexion and the agonist muscles are the anterior deltoids and the pectoralis major. The action in the elbow is flexion and the agonist muscle is the biceps brachii. Example two – kicking a football...
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...“Football” before the 19th century referred to any number of ball games played on foot. The rules of these games differed from one another, some allowing the use of hands “running games”, others forbidding it “kicking games”. One legend has it that the football game rugby, American football’s ancestor, was invented when an Englishman grew tired of the no hands restriction, picked the ball up, and ran. Out of an interest to enforce the rules of the game the other players tackled the fellow. So much fun was this diversion that running football games were born. Whether this is true or not is unknown, but what is known is that football does have its origins in the games played by pre-colonial European peasants. The first vestiges of what would become American football are found in the 19th century in the games played by students at the elite schools and universities of the United States. A particularly violent running game was played at Princeton University circa 1820, and around this time a kicking game was also being played by students of Dartmouth College. Rules for the Dartmouth game, known as “Old Division Football”, were published in 1871. The first running game to codify its rules was the popular English sport, rugby, and it did so in 1845. While there is some degree of debate over what constitutes the first American football team, most sports historians point to the Oneida Football Club, a Boston club founded in 1861. Nobody knows what rules this club used; whether...
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...HISTORY OF FOOTBALL. We all know many kinds of sports. Some people were taught how to play different type of sports during their early age. One of the sports is football. It is a very well-known sport. Football is also known as ‘soccer’ in the United States of America. Nearly all the males in the world play the game of football and if not, they just have a huge interest in football but do they actually know the history of the game of football and how it was first established? It is widely accepted that both the Romans and the Greeks started the sport of football which tells us that its origins are believed to lie in ancient times. During the Roman Empire, football wasn’t involved in the ancient Olympic due to the fact that football that time was just a test of bravery to the Roman Army as actions such as punching, hacking and generally assaulting the opponent were highly accepted as part of the game. Football during that time appears to have resembled rugby. Football was also mentioned in a compiled documents found in China which was from the 1st century BC. It describes a practice called cuju which means “kicking ball” in Chinese. Cuju was originally involved kicking a leather ball into a mini hole hung 9 meters above ground with the help of bamboo sticks. Rules were established then on the 2nd century BC and eventually, the game of of cuju spread to Japan as well as to Korea and the name of the sport has changed to Kemari respectively. However the sport appears to have...
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...The various codes of football share certain common elements. Players in American football, Canadian football, rugby union and rugby league take-up positions in a limited area of the field at the start of the game.[7] They tend to use throwing and running as the main ways of moving the ball, and only kick on certain limited occasions. Body tackling is a major skill, and games typically involve short passages of play of 5–90 seconds.[7] Association football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football tend to use kicking to move the ball around the pitch, with handling more limited. Body tackles are less central to game, and players are more free to move around the field (offside laws are typically less strict).[7] Common rules among the sports include:[citation needed] Two teams of usually between 11 and 18 players; some variations that have fewer players (five or more per team) are also popular. A clearly defined area in which to play the game. Scoring goals or points, by moving the ball to an opposing team's end of the field and either into a goal area, or over a line. Goals or points resulting from players putting the ball between two goalposts. The goal or line being defended by the opposing team. Players being required to move the ball—depending on the code—by kicking, carrying, or hand-passing the ball. Players using only their body to move the ball. In all codes, common skills include passing, tackling, evasion of tackles, catching and kicking.[7] In most codes,...
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...Football Vs Soccer There are a lot of people in the world that likes sport one of these sport is football, there are two sports that have the same name, but different rules and these sports are football and soccer. Soccer is just another name for football it is called soccer in only one part in the world and that is in America, but it is known for the rest of the world as football it is the favorite sport in the world world. There are many differences between them but there are similarities as there as many differences between them. They have the same object between them and that is to score on the opposite team and winning the match, but the have different methods to achieve their object and win the match. The most dubious issue that a soccer...
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...all these things in one place, you’re all having a super bowl party. Today I will inform on the rules of the american football as well as the history behind this sport, and the exciting and controversial game of super bowl. First I will discuss the rules that the american football has and I will also include the scoring system. Secondly I will talk about how american football has evolved from rugby and soccer. Lastly I will talk about the most talked about game, the super bowl and about how the people spend their time watching the game. The rules of the american football are very simple. According to american football there are two opposing teams, the offense and the defense. The offense stretches score points on the defense, while the defense tries to obtain position of the ball, and keeps the offense of the other team from scoring. There are four ways to score in a football game. The main scores of points the player will get is by scoring a touchdown. Another way to score is by kicking the ball between the goal post and the team will obtain one point. The field goal is another way to score, even though the...
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...Football, which essentially involves kicking a ball and negotiating it to the goalpost using only the feet - has been a popular sport for several centuries in many countries across the world. The game is known by a variety of names - rugby, soccer, football etc During ancient times, the Greeks and the Romans played many types of ball games and a few prominent ones resembled the present-day football. Though there is not much of recorded history of Greeks playing football, it is seen that the game of Episkyro which is similar to football was regularly played throughout Greece as early as 800 BCE. However, the Episkyro game permitted the use of hands as well, which means the game was more in the nature of rugby than football. But the other features...
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...History of Football - The Origins © FIFA.com The contemporary history of the world's favourite 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. Both codes stemmed from a common root and both have a long and intricately branched ancestral tree. A search down the centuries reveals at least half a dozen different games, varying to different degrees, and to which the historical development of football has been traced back. Whether this can be justified in some instances is disputable. Nevertheless, the fact remains that people have enjoyed kicking a ball about for thousands of years and there is absolutely no reason to consider it an aberration of the more 'natural' form of playing a ball with the hands. On the contrary, apart from the need to employ the legs and feet in tough tussles for the ball, often without any laws for protection, it was recognised right at the outset that the art of controlling the ball with the feet was not easy and, as such, required no small measure of skill. The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise from a military manual dating back to the second and third centuries BC in China. This Han Dynasty forebear of football was called Tsu' Chu and it consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair...
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...I walked into the locker room on the first day of football practice of my senior year. Right as you walk in you get the big whiff of sweat, sunscreen, and deodorant. The smell that tells you it's time for football. While I'm getting ready I hear two kids talking about me saying. They're saying, "he sucks" and "he's never going to make it on this team". That motivated me. I came in, no one knowing who I was or what I could do. So I threw my cleats on and went out there thinking there was nothing to lose. All I heard during practices was kids saying stuff about me which is now starting to get to me frustrated and I start shanking balls left and right. Not a good start to my senior year of high school football,...
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...health. For this observation I watched students play in the gym, which was, for the most part, an unstructured setting. When I was observing Derek, I noticed he had great motor skills (Berger, 2016, p. 164). Compared to how he might have moved as a preschooler, Derek was able to run without stumbling, catch a football more often than not. He was able to aim and throw the football back to the other kid he was playing with. When he kicked the soccer ball I noticed he had a very powerful kick; enough that he was able to kick the ball from one side of the gym to the other...
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...Football In Soicety – How does football make you feel? Football makes me feel like I am on top off the world. Everything about this beautiful game gives me a good feeling. If it’s playing the game or even if it’s watching the game. Playing the game is what I have always loved doing because I love the sport so much. From being a young boy kicking a ball around the playing fields too now playing in competive matches weeks in and weeks out. When I am playing the game I get a real buzz from it. Their is no better feeling in the world whenever you score a goal in a match. From the moment the ball leaves your feet and travels into the net. It could complete your day and make you feel so happy. Playing football always gives you something too look forward too. You always want too no when the next match is our when the next training session is. This gives you a good feel off exictment. The best way I enjoy football is having a kick about with your mates in a soical area. As we did in class last Monday whenever the whole class traveled to Bedford Park too have a kick about. Wakening up in the morning knowing you had a kick about with a bunch off lads instead off having to go to a lecture brightens up your morning, this makes you feel good. During the game when you are playing you have a huge smile on your face and its all about having so much fun. It makes you feel great. However, football can also make you feel angry and can be upsetting. Playing a competive game off football at the...
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...Dr. T. Gould English 111-022C April 05, 2007 Tyson Food Advertisement The advertisement I’m writing about is a Tyson Foods advertisement for their fully cooked, ready to serve Hickory Smoked bacon. The advertisement description: the advertisement has a red border. Three-fourths of the page is a picture of a mother kicking a football into the sky with her sons looking on is amazement. In the background of the picture the setting looks to be in a family oriented middle-class neighborhood. The mother is African American female wearing a dress blouse with various vertical pink stripes, brown dress pants and brown high heels. She looks as if she was about to head off to work because her hair was up in a bun, she was carrying a brown handbag and she had a briefcase. She is standing in the grass in her front yard with her leg raised in the air as if she had just finished kicking a football. Her sons are there watching in awe. One son is to the left of her and right is to the right. The son on her left is standing to her side wearing a red and black jersey with black basketball shorts and red and white tennis shoes. The son on her right is kneeling in the grass wearing a royal blue jersey with red and white number elevens on the front and the sleeve of his jersey. He’s wearing a pair of dark colored jeans with black and white tennis shoes. Above the son on the right is a red, yellow and white Tyson label reading powered by Tyson. The rest of the page, the other fourth, is white...
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...SOCCER In the book ‘Football’ written by Richard Giulianotti, soccer (Also known as football around the world) is acknowledged around the world to be the most popular sport. To play soccer you must get the ball into the goal post passing the keeper without using your hands, they are located on both sides of the field. The team with the most points wins the game. Soccer has its own organisation that promotes the game and holds tournaments. The organisation is known as FIFA (Federation de Football Association) which was founded in 1904. FIFA are known for their tournaments, the World Cup and the Women’s World Cup. How To Play Step 1. Feet and Eye Coordination To be able to play this game you are required to keep an eye on the ball and to kick it with your feet. It is known that vision can help control the movement of the foot. Perfection of this skill allows intercepting the ball with ease and to handle the ball while keeping his/her head up. Step 2. Dribbling Dribbling is kicking and controlling the ball while in motion. To dribble you must kick the ball hard enough so it goes forward, but light enough to keep it within reach of your feet. Step 3. Passing Passing is kicking the ball to a team member allowing them to be able to assist you in winning the game. It helps to watch where your team members are so you can assume where they will be running to. By doing so, this allows you to kick the ball ahead of your teammate so they can run to the ball. Step 4. Shooting/Scoring ...
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...Are footballers paid too much? Football is now a multi-billion pound business it generates serious debate when it comes to money and most often when it comes to player’s pay. In this essay I will give views of both sides of the said argument above and will show just why people feel so strongly about how much money footballers earn. I will also give a conclusion on my personal beliefs of this. Many people around the world have a vast belief that footballers are paid far too much amounts of money, with players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Yaya Touré and Lionel Messi earning up to £300,000 a week for kicking a ball around a pitch. Whilst it would take around two or three years or even more than that for a teacher, policeman, fireman or doctor to earn this amount. The belief is that every premiership player in big leagues such as the English, Spanish, German and Italian leagues are the ones who earn too much, whereas players in lower leagues such as lower Scottish divisions or even lower English ones earn minuscule amounts. The majority of footballers in the world are on low wages and a large sum of these people are only playing part time but that doesn’t take away the fact that thousands and thousands of players are on big money a week when this money could be used to create more jobs for unemployed and homeless people and to give money to people who actually do the world a service. Such as surgeons or policemen who are trying to do good for the cities and countries in which they...
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