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o Today, many people turn not only to watch football matches of all
kinds and colors, facilitated by the significant amount of hours they
have on television, but also practiced more and more amateur in
places especially intended as clubs, courts, spaces and sports centers,
etc. In this way, people can feel much closer and involved with the
practice of football than if they simply watched it on TV. The
identification with a local team or with the selected one of the
country to which one belongs are extremely interesting elements
that serve to understand the relevance that football has on a social
level.
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Football
Football or soccer (from British English football, translated
as football) is a team sport played between two sets of
eleven players each and some referees who make sure
that the rules are met correctly. It is widely considered the
most popular sport in the world, as it is practiced by 270
million people. It is also known as football association or
football association, name derived from The Football
Association, the world's first official federation in this
sport and used that name to distinguish it from other
sports that include the word "soccer" or "soccer”. In some
English-speaking countries it is also known as soccer, an
abbreviation for association, since the name of football in
those countries is mostly associated to other sports with
that denomination (mainly in the United States where the
name football applies to American football, a totally
different sport).