Association Football

What is it?
Associative Football, or commonly known as the sport of football and soccer, is very popular around the world. Football is a game that is played one rectangular field of grass or green artificial turf. With a spherical ball and two (2) teams, of a number of eleven player for each time, for a time of forty five minutes in each half and there are two halves, it has a running time of ninety minutes. This sports history and roots are from the European country of Great Britain however the rules of the game was not published until the year 1863. The lead organization of this sport is known as FIFA, which means International Federation of Association Football, this are the people who take up the responsibility to organize the international event which is known as the World Cup, which is held at different locations around the world every four years, which was held since the year 1930.

The Football Pitch

The football pitch, is shown as a diagram below

Football Positions
In each team in football, players must hold their own positions on the field, this helps with organisation. The different positions in the sport of football are: Goalkeeper (GK)
The goalkeeper is the most specialised position in football. A goalkeeper's job is mainly defensive: to guard the team's goal from being breached (to not let the other team score).

Defenders Play behind the midfielders and their primary responsibility is to provide support to the goalkeeper, and
to prevent the opposition from scoring a goal. The different positions in the Defense are :

Sweeper/Libro Centre-back (CB) Full-back/Right-back/Left-back (FB/RB/LB) Wingback (WB/RWB/LWB Midfield Midfield players are players whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders, the different positions are: Defensive midfielder (DM/CDM/RDM/LDM [edit] Centre midfielder (CM) [edit] Winger or Wide Midfielders (RM/RW/LM/LW) [edit] Attacking midfielder (AM/CAM/RAM/LAM) Forward Strikers or forwards are the players on a team in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal (note: the term attacker is also sometimes used to describe strikers/forwards but is now more commonly used to describe any player on the team currently in possession of the ball). The positions are: Centre forward (CF) Secondary Striker (SS) Wide Forward (RF)

Here is a diagram showing how football players are positioned to play the game:

Football Techniques
Dribbling In football, dribbling is a very important offensive move. In association football (soccer), a dribble is one of the most difficult ball skills to master and one of the most useful attacking moves. In typical game play, players attempt to propel the ball toward their opponents' goal through individual control of the ball, such as by dribbling (running with the ball close to their feet). However, Dribbling in soccer is most of times, invaluable especially in the wings,for this is where all the defence players are.

Lionel Messi dribbling for Barcelona

Passing Passing the ball is a key part of association football. The purpose of passing is to keep possession of the ball by manoeuvring it on the ground between different players and to advance it up the playing field. By doing this it gives the team doing this manuever it gives an advantage which is that they can keep the ball in their possession, without giving the opposing time an advantage to take away the ball.

Shooting and Scoring Shooting and Scoring is the ultimate offence move known in football. Scoring a goal in a football game