Short description: Overview of and topical guide to association football
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.
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.
A type of football – sport that involves kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.
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.
A type of football – sport that involves kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.
Goal sport – sport in which an attacking team must send a ball or puck into a physical structure or area called a "goal" in order to score points.
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.
Names for association football
Names for association football
football
futbol
futboll
fotbal
soccer
Equipment
Adidas Telstar-style ball, with the familiar black and white truncated icosahedron pattern.
Association football pitch – playing field.
Football – ball used in the sport of association football. The ball's spherical shape, as well as its size, weight, and material composition, are specified by Law 2 of the Laws of the Game maintained by the International Football Association Board (IFAB).
Kit – standard equipment and attire worn by players.
Beach soccer – football played on sand, also known as sand soccer
Indoor varieties of Association football:
Five-a-side football – played throughout the world under various rules including:
Futsal ('futebol de salão') – the FIFA-approved Five-a-side indoor game
Indoor soccer – the six-a-side indoor game as played in North America
Keepie uppie – art of juggling with a football using feet, knees, chest, shoulders, and head.
Footbag – small bean bag or sand bag used as a ball in a number of keepie uppie variations such as hacky sack.
Freestyle Football – modern take on Keepie uppie where freestylers are graded for their entertainment value and expression of skill.
Paralympic Football – modified association football for disabled competitors.
Rush goalie – variation of football in which the role of the goalkeeper is more flexible than normal.
Street football – encompasses a number of informal varieties of football.
Panna Knock Out – one-on-one player matches in a cage, with players aiming to nutmeg ("panna" in Surinamese Sranan Tongo and Dutch slang) their opponent to eliminate them.
Women's association football – played with the exact same rules and equipment as men's football.
Gameplay
Strategy
Training ground (association football)
Formation (association football)
Association football positions
Tactics and techniques
Association football tactics and skills
Anti-football
Behind The Leg Flip Flap
Bicycle kick
Catenaccio
Combination Game
Corner kick
Cruijff Turn
Curl
Direct free kick
Diving
Flip flap
Flo Pass
Formation
Last man
Long ball
Marseille turn
Nutmeg
One touch
Passing
Pelé runaround move
Push and run
Rabona
Rainbow kick
Revie Plan
Seal dribble
Shooting
Sliding tackle
Step over
Tiki-taka
Total Football
Volley
Work rate
Association football teams
Football club (association football)
List of association football clubs
List of men's national association football teams
List of women's national association football teams
↑Mueller, Frederick; Cantu, Robert; Van Camp, Steven (1996). "Team Sports". Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports. Champaign: Human Kinetics. p. 57. ISBN0-87322-674-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=XG6AIHLtyaUC&dq=soccer+most+popular+team+sport&pg=PA57. "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)