Saturday’s in the fall are action packed thrillers to see which team will come out on top. What sport is being referenced? Well that depends where in the world this is being asked. In some parts like Europe people would think it was referenced towards soccer and in the United States people would think it was a reference to football. On different sides of the globe two sports are being played, yet in each culture they have the same value of importance.
Where something begins can speak volumes of its future intentions. Soccer and football began centuries between one another yet they are both still around today and loved by many. Football was first thought to be created in the 1870s when Walter Camp combined rugby and soccer during a backyard game at Yale University. The first
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The game of soccer was first documented in China around 2500B.C. The Han dynasty would dribble leather balls around with their feet and kick it into small nets.
They may have different origins but on pen and paper soccer and football are not different. Soccer is play on a rectangular field that is one hundred and twenty yards by eighty yards. Two goals sit on end lines one hundred and twenty yards apart. There are two teams with eleven people on each side of field that play for two forty-five minute halves. The number of people that are allowed to sub into a professional soccer game is three. Collegiately each people is allowed to step on the field once in the first half but as many times in the second. Players are only allowed to use their feet to move the ball down the field expect the goalkeeper