Soccer / Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.
It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal.
Players are not allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play, unless they are goalkeepers (and then only when within their penalty area). Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may also use any part of their body except the hands and the arms. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time or a penalty shootout depending on the format of the competition.
The Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA; French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association), which organises World Cups for both men and women every four years.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 2 December 2010. This will be the first World Cup held in Europe since 2006; all but one of the stadium venues are in European Russia, west of the Ural Mountains to keep travel time manageable.
soccer rules
Laws of the Game
IFAB currently acknowledges 17 laws of soccer that are the standard for any professional or international match played. They are as follows:
- Law 1: The Field of Play
- Law 2: The Ball
- Law 3: The Number of Players
- Law 4: The Players’ Equipment
- Law 5: The Referee
- Law 6: The Assistant Referees
- Law 7: The Duration of the Match
- Law 8: The Start and Restart of Play
- Law 9: The Ball In and Out of Play
- Law 10: The Method of Scoring
- Law 11: Offside
- Law 12: Fouls and Misconduct
- Law 13: Free Kicks
- Law 14: The Penalty Kick
- Law 16: The Goal Kick
- Law 17: The Corner Kick
Soccer workshop
Clic on the picture, you have until February 4, 12.00 am to answer the workshop.
Athletics sport
decathlon & heptathlon
How it works
This is the men’s ultimate all-round test, a 10-event contest covering the whole range of athletics disciplines spread over two days.
Competitors earn points for their performance in each discipline and the overall winner is the man who accrues the most points.
The first day consists of (in order): 100m, long jump, shot put, high jump and 400m. The second day’s events are 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1500m.
This is the women’s ultimate all-round test, a seven-event contest covering the whole range of athletics disciplines and spread over two days.
Competitors earn points for their performance in each discipline and the overall winner is the athlete who accrues the most points.
The first day consists of (in order): 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put and 200m. Day two comprises the long jump, javelin and 800m.