2025年2月19日 · How many people play football? The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, estimated that at the turn of the 21st century there were approximately 250 million football players worldwide.

Both men and women play soccer in schools, clubs, and on national and professional teams. In a soccer game two teams compete to score more points, which are called goals. The players move the ball around a rectangular field, usually by kicking it.

2025年2月17日 · But, beyond elite universities and schools, soccer (as the sport is popularly called in the United States) was played widely in some cities with large immigrant populations such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland (Ohio), and St. Louis (Missouri), as well as New York City and Los Angeles after Hispanic migrations.

2025年2月19日 · Football - Rules, Positions, Tactics: The rules of football regarding equipment, field of play, conduct of participants, and settling of results are built around 17 laws. The International Football Association Board (IFAB), consisting of delegates from FIFA and the four football associations from the United Kingdom, is empowered to amend the laws.

2025年2月1日 · Pele, Brazilian football (soccer) player, in his time probably the most famous and possibly the best-paid athlete in the world. He was part of the Brazilian national teams that won three World Cup championships (1958, 1962, and 1970). Learn more about Pele’s life and career.

2025年2月15日 · Football (soccer) is Guatemala’s most popular sport. The national team competes internationally, and Guatemalan players figure prominently in clubs in other national leagues, especially those of Mexico and Uruguay.

2010年2月18日 · Cristiano Ronaldo (born February 5, 1985, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal) is a Portuguese football (soccer) forward who is one of the greatest players of his generation. Ronaldo is the winner of five Ballon d’Or awards (2008, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2017), and in 2024 he became the first men’s player to score 900 career goals in official matches.

6 天之前 · Lionel Messi scored 73 goals during the 2011–12 season while playing for FC Barcelona, breaking a 39-year-old record for single-season goals in a major European football league. In 2014 Messi led Argentina to the World Cup final, which Argentina lost, but Messi won the Golden Ball award as the tournament’s best player.

2025年2月19日 · Kylian Mbappé (b. 1998) is a French football (soccer) player whose speed and goal scoring as an attacker have made him a dominant force in European club competition. In 2022 he became the first player in football history to score four goals in …

2025年1月24日 · Madagascar - Sports, Recreation, Culture: The people of Madagascar enjoy playing many sports, six of which form the core of the country’s school- and amateur team-based competitive system: football (soccer), boxing, athletics (track and field), judo, women’s basketball, and women’s tennis.