The world’s favorite sport, football, or more normally known as soccer, is a game played amongst two teams having 11 participants each. It’s played at a ground rectangular in shape with a synthetic or grass surface. The centres of both the shorter sides of the rectangle have the goal post and a bar on the top. The goal to be attained of the game is to kick a spherical object, or in more mutual words a football, through the goal which is guarded by the opponent’s goal keeper. Besides the goal keeper no other player is permitted to use their hands to handle the ball. Other participants can make use of their feet to kick the ball around and score goals. Use of one’s head or torso is also permitted while manageing the ball in mid air.
Soccer was systematize in 1863 by the football association, which laid the foundation for the sport we all love to watch and play today. Fifa governs the state of worldwide football today and also hosts the most awaited tournament each four years, the fifa earth cup. Besides worldwide tournaments, the domestic leagues are doing a good occupation in preserving the soccer spirit in several countries.
The italian serie a, the spanish la liga, the english premier league, the french ligue 1 and the german bundesliga are the top five european leagues that are followed all around the earth. Each league draw attention of highly professional football stars and also new talents from respective countries in europe and africa. The wage cost of each league itself is more then 600 million pounds.
Of the five most ordinary leagues, the english premier league deserves a special mention. The league comprises of 20 teams each of them playing each other team in the league twice, thence having 38 games for a team in the season and wholly 380 games in the entire season. The league begun in 1992 and since then manchester unified has was successful to win 11 championship titles and has proved to be the most successful club in the league.
The key to the popularity of soccer is its simplicity. A good almost all of soccer fans also occur to be soccer participants. The instrumentation necessitated to play the game does not include anything more than a ground and a ball. Each of the clubs associated to their respective leagues has built up a massive multi national fan base, which has not only helped improve the popularity of the club but in a way has become a serious business for the clubs.
