About Football & World Cup Football

The game of football in not a modern sport it has been played in one form or another for at least 2500 years. The Chinese game of cuju, involving the attempts to kick a leather ball through a hole in a large cloth, was played during the Han dynasty. The Roman plays ‘Harpastum’ a team game adapted from Greek version ‘pheninda’ and the development of ball skills became an essential part in the Roman Empire. This timelessness and universality of football suggests that it may somehow be ingrained in what we take to be human nature.

Association football, soccer, or simply football is a team sport played between two teams each consisting of eleven players. It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass (sometimes of the artificial turf grass) ground with a goal post at each end. The solo objective of the game is to score by maneuvering the spheroid ball into the opponent. Others than the goalkeepers no any players can touch the ball with the hand during the game. This sport is known as many name in the different countries the world such as soccer in the native Latin countries, association football in some American countries and ‘Bhakundo’ in Nepal. The recognized international body of football (and associated games like futsal and beach soccer) is the Federation International de Football Association (FIFA). The FIFA headquarters is located in Zurich, Switzerland. And for the regional level there are six confederations that are associated with FIFA. They are AFC (Asia) CAF (Africa), UEFA (Europe), OFC (Oceania), CONMEBOL (South Africa) & CONCACAF (North America) (Williams, 1994).

Football has been the world’s most popular sport, at least since the late nine-tenth century and its international diffusion by the British. The global game spans culturally diverse societies in all continents; an estimated 250 million people are direct participants, around 1.4 billion have an interest and football flagship tournament, FIFA World Cup Finals attracts a cumulative global television audience of 33.4 billion. Football, just a word that describes the interrelated passion, emotion, dedication and also nationality in a boundary across the world. Football provides many fans to an opportunity to let them go emotionally to release the frustration of everyday life. Football fan finds themselves as the twelfth man in the game of the eleven one. The way that the football fans cry, songs and wave their country/club banner all play an important role for the players to discover their qualities and performed their best in the match (Centre, 2008).