Soccer Essay

Soccer is the most popular sport around the World. It unites hundreds of countries and brings numerous Cultures together by involving world issues with the sport by having slogans saying “say no to racism.” Soccer is played with a ball and Eleven players for each team on the field at each time, there are lots of rules that are involved with the sport which are being revised every day by FIFA. FIFA stands for Federation International Football Association.
In the Medieval days people kicked around a skull or a pigs bladder. A game where people kicked around an object in a ball shape dates back as far as 2500BC, during which time the Greeks, Egyptians and Chinese all appear to have participated in this activity. In 1855 Charles Goodyear created the first vulcanized rubber ball. Prior to that the ball was dependent on the size and shape of the pigs bladder so it moved on the ground unpredictably like todays footballs. Through the years Soccer balls have been improved with using different materials, changing the required size and weight, and adding different qualities to the ball so it has different effects. The different effects include using materials to help have better ball control, or making the ball lighter so it moves unpredictably in the air. The new advancements in balls have caused a lot of controversy over the years, most recently at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. These balls caused lots of problems for the goalkeepers and a lot of shots went in that normally don’t. They also caused problems for players who sent balls 40 yards over the crossbar from how light the ball was.
The First Soccer league was In 1888, named “The Football league” and consisted of twelve teams. The need for this league came about since...

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...Some of the greatest players in History have played there like Figo, Beckham, Ronaldo, Raul, and Zidane, just to name a few.
Technology and advancements are always happening in Soccer. Goal Line technology is coming into play to assist the referees because there has been a lot of controversy in allowing goals. In the 2010 world cup Frank Lampard took a shot against Germany and the replays showed that the entire ball crossed the line but the refs said it didn’t, and since the refs can’t review plays like they do in other sports England wasn’t allowed a goal.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world played in every country whether its a professional team or kids playing against each other in the streets. Soccer has come a long way since its founding and is still expanding, especially here in the United States where we are becoming a better team every year.