Soccer Informative Speech

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Soccer is a sport played all around the world in many places! Sometimes, it’s known as football. Soccer has been an olympic sport since 1900. It is a sport played with two teams and 11 people on each team, including one goalkeeper. Soccer’s high governing body is FIFA. It’s deemed the world’s most popular sport, as it is played in 200 countries! Soccer is fun, but there’s a lot to it. First, you’ll need two teams consisting of 10 people and 1 goalkeeper. (11 people) Each match is played in two 45 minute halves. Each soccer game starts with the flip of a coin and the winning captain of the coin flip decides which goal to kick off of. When playing soccer, it is a rule that you CANNOT touch the ball while on the field. When the ref calls for