Soccer is a fascinating sport.
Let's not get confused. Many countries outside of US call soccer "football".
Soccer is played predominantly with the feet, but players may use any part of their body except their hands and arms to propel the ball. The goalkeeper is the only member of the team allowed to handle the ball in the field of play.
Two teams of eleven players each contend to get a spherical ball into the other team's goal (thereby scoring a goal). The side which does this the most frequently is the winner. The primary rule for this objective is that players, other than the goalkeepers, may not handle the ball with their hands or arms while on the field during play.
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Who calls it football and who calls it soccer?
Football is more commonly known as soccer in certain English-speaking nations where the word football refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland and the United States and also in nations where Rugby football is more popular such as New Zealand and South Africa. In these countries football was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with the domestic form of the game so soccer became more widely used. For example, the governing body of the game in the US is the United States Soccer Federation. This body was originally called the US Football Association, and was formed in 1913 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association. The word soccer was added to the name in 1945, making it the US Soccer Football Association, and it did not drop the word football until 1974, when it assumed its current name.
Outside these countries the word soccer has not been commonly used and football remains by far the most common name to describe the sport, being the name officially used by both FIFA, the sport's world governing body, and the International Olympic Committee. However, the use of soccer is on the rise, perhaps due to the global influence of American culture on the English language.
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Some Soccer Accidents and Mishaps
(NOTE:The word football is used often synonomously with soccer):
There have been many accidents and disasters in the history of football. Some of these, such as the Hillsborough and Ibrox disasters, were due to problems with crowd control. The Heysel Stadium disaster was a combination of hooliganism and poor crowd control. The Bradford City Disaster occurred due to poor fire safety in the stadium. Lessons learned from these disasters have led to better and safer football stadia.
There have also been deaths on the pitch. On 5 September 1931, the Celtic F.C. goalkeeper John Thomson suffered a skull fracture when he collided with the Rangers F.C. player Sam English during an Old Firm match. He was fatally injured and died later that day [2] (http://www.manchestercsc.com/John%20Thomson.htm). The Cameroon international player Marc-Vivien Foé also died on the pitch. He collapsed during a match of the Confederations Cup against Colombia in 2003. His death was attributed to heart problems. Several players have been struck by lightning while playing during sudden storms.
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