Football, commonly known as association football or soccer, is a sport in which two teams of 11 players strive to move the ball into the other team's goal using any part of their body except their hands and arms. Only the goalie is allowed to touch the ball, and only within the penalty area surrounding the goal. The side with the most goals wins.
Football is the most popular ball game in the world in terms of both participants and spectators. The sport, which has simple rules and equipment, may be played practically anyplace, from official football playing fields (pitches) to gymnasiums, streets, school playgrounds, parks, or beaches. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), football's governing body, estimated that at the turn of the twenty-first century, there were approximately 250 million football players and over 1.3 billion people "interested" in football; in 2010, a combined television audience of more than 26 billion watched football's premier tournament, the quadrennial month-long World Cup finals or "The Clasico" a great match from La Liga de España played between Real Madrid and Barcelona Club de Futbol that had become a great world event
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International Football Organizations
Football had expanded across Europe by the early twentieth century, but it lacked international organization. In 1904, members from football associations in Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland formed the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
FIFA's mission is to control football and grow the sport across the world. Since 2016, the organization has been rapidly growing into a body capable of serving our game more efficiently for the benefit of the entire globe.
The new FIFA is modernizing football in all aspects to make it more global, accessible, and inclusive. Not only on one or two continents, but on all of them.
In order to make football truly global, we will assist in the development of at least 50 national teams and 50 clubs from all continents that can play at a high competitive level.