{"id":6,"date":"2022-12-17T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T18:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odm25.upgradcampustest.xyz\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2022-12-19T06:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T06:20:44","slug":"football-the-most-popular-sport","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/odm25.upgradcampustest.xyz\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"Football: The most popular sport on the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Association football<\/strong><b>, <strong>more commonly known as\u00a0football\u00a0or\u00a0soccer,\u00a0is a\u00a0<\/strong>team <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_sport\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">sport<\/span><\/a> played between two teams of 11 players who <\/strong><\/b><b><strong>primarily use their feet to propel the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ball_(association_football)\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">ball<\/span><\/a> around a<\/strong><\/b><b><strong>\u00a0rectangular field called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Football_pitch\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">pitch<\/span><\/a>. The objective of <\/strong><\/b><b><strong>the game is to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scoring_in_association_football\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">score more goals<\/span><\/a> than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goal_(sport)\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">goal<\/span><\/a> defended by the opposing side. <\/strong><\/b><b><strong>Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minutes halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is considered the world&#8217;s most popular sport. <\/strong><\/b>\n\n<!-- \/wp:post-content --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n\n<strong>The game of association football is played in accordance with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laws_of_the_Game_(association_football)\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Laws of the Game<\/span><\/a>, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with\nthe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Football_Association_Board\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">International Football Association Board<\/span><\/a> (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ball_(association_football)\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">football<\/span><\/a> that is 68\u201370 cm (27\u201328 in) in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team&#8217;s goal (between the posts and under the bar), thereby scoring a goal. When the ball is in play, the players mainly use their feet, but may use any other part of their body to control, strike or pass the ball apart from their hands or arms. Only the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goalkeeper_(association_football)\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">goalkeepers<\/span><\/a> may use their hands and arms, and only then within the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penalty_area\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">penalty area<\/span><\/a>. The team that has scored more goals at the end of the game is the winner. Depending on the format of the competition, an equal number of goals scored may result in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tie_(draw)\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">draw<\/span><\/a> being declared, or the game goes into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extra_time\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">extra time<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penalty_shootout_(association_football)\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">penalty shootout<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><b> <\/b>\n\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association football, more commonly known as\u00a0football\u00a0or\u00a0soccer,\u00a0is a\u00a0team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a\u00a0rectangular field called a pitch. 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