Soccer

Soccer is the world's most popular sport. It is the national sport of most European and Latian-American countries, and of many others nations. Millions of people in more than 140 countries play soccer. Soccer's most famous international competition, the World Cup, is held every 4 years. In a soccer game there are two teams of 11 players they try to hit the ball in to the other goal. The players must kick the soccer ball or they hit the ball with their head or body they may not touch the ball with your hands. The only time you can touch the ball with your hands is when you are goalkeeper. In Britain and many countries, soccer is called Football or association Football. The field is rectangular, and sometime the size of the field is different. The boundary lines on the sides of the field are called touch lines. The goalkeeper is supposed to keep the ball from going in the goal. Rolling arounda soccer ball with your feet will help get to know how the soccer ball moves. Traping the ball is done with your foot. When you kick with your outside of your foot it would problably go a shorter distances. An inside kick is useful but is not as powerful. Heading the ball takes gentle practice. In soccer if you learn how to kick is goind to make it twice as good as it is with one foot. A Free kick is rewarded for being fouled on. A kick made with a instep kick is the most powerful kick in soccer. If the instep hits the ball in the center, the kick will be low and straight. the strength of the whole leg is behind the instep kick. Hitting the ball under center it will make the ball go high. The hitting of your right or left of the center will make the curve. Your toes should point down for the kick and the kicker's body should lean over the ball. Passing the ball is a kick to your other teammate. Passing can be done by a instep kick, inside kick, outside kick, heading or another move. If you are passing when your teammate is running you should not aim rigth at them because they would miss. So you want perdict where your teammate is going to be and pass it that way. When you are goalkeeper you should get ready before the ball comes to you. Kicking is one way start an attack or you can pick it up with your hands.racing to lose the ball takes a good spead to keep up with ball and you need to know where your ball is going.

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