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Football: The Most Popular Sport In The World

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There are a lot of sports these days. Most of them needed tools (example: balls), but not only tools, you need good teamwork of every member of your team and good coordination to win the game. One of them is football. Football is one of the most popular sport in the world, and most of people play it no matter how old are they (old or young), they still playing football and they enjoy it. Most of people know what football is, but if you really have no idea what football is, football is one of sport that requires you to kick the ball to the opponent’s goalposts to make a goal, team with most goal is the winner. The game is simple, yet hard to master.
Football sport has been found since 2 BC. It is hard to believe football can survive in time and not yet extinct eaten by time until now. First time football ever played is in china on dynasty Han (2 …show more content…

Throw in happens when the ball is out of the field line. The team that was just touch the ball last is the one who fouls. Then the other team will get a chance to throw the ball in from the position where the ball is out. Offside is really a common thing that happens in football match. Offside happens when the offensive team passing a ball to the team member that behind the line defense of the defensive team. This usually happens near the penalty box because it is where the defensive player at. A player that conducts one foul (by tackling opponent team from behind and many more) is getting yellow card and the other team get a free kick. Player that conducts two fouls will get a red card. It means that the player get banned from the match. If there are five players getting banned, then the match will be postponed or even cancelled by the referee. In some cases if you ask about referee judgment and protest about it, you can get yellow card or even red card for fighting the

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