Playing The Football Game
The football game was first dominated by men but in more recent years this game has seen a lot of participation from the women.
There are international tournaments both for men and women held all over the world today; however the male participating tournaments still seems to have the bigger draw of interest.
The Basics
The most basic and popular format is where two team are pitched against each other with each team consisting of eleven members.
Although there are usually eleven players on the playing field, there are also a few more players kept on reserve.
This is for various different reasons such as substitution for injuries sustained by those playing, the coaches discretion to replacing players throughout the game, and a few other reasons that the coach may deem fit to exercise the substitution option.
The general idea of the game is to be able to score as many goals as possible within a given period of time.
The goals are located in the opposing teams playing area, where the each team tried to penetrate the defenses of the teams to score goals.
The movement of the ball from one end to the other end of the playing field is usually done by kicking, throwing or running with it.
The general rule would be the hands are not to be used to control the ball while on the playing field and the only circumstances where the hands are allowed to be part of the playing motion is when the ball in being thrown in from outside the playing field or when the goalkeeper is displaying skills to evade the opponents goal scores.
