Basic Rules in the European Football

3 March 2007

Although I’m not a fan of sports, and especially of football, be it American or European, I am interested in finding out where, when and how the European football appeared, this “sport with the foot” that is highly appreciated worldwide. Apparently, 4000 years ago, in Japan and in China, the men used to play a round a leather all. The Greeks and the Romans also practiced the games with the ball where the legs and the hands were authorized. At the end of the 19th century, in England, a new game was created, namely soccer. Soccer’s rules are completely different from those that are applied in the American football.

The European football is played by respecting a set of rules, called the Laws of the Game. Two teams of eleven players each will try to hit a round ball, having the purpose of introducing it the adversary goal gate. The team that scores the biggest number of goals is declared a winner, but if both teams have managed to score the same number of goals, then the score is considered to be equal.

One of the most important rules in football is not to touch the ball with your hand, except when you’re executing an out, namely when you have to re-introduce the ball on the field from the margin of the field. The game is finished only when the ball surpasses with its entire circumference a line that is marking the field, or when the arbitrator whistles.

If you are interested in playing this game, then you definitely have to form a complete team because each member has its role in the game. The positions that the coach settles for each player are supposed to be respected because, otherwise, there would be a complete mess on the field.

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