足球的比赛规则(用英语说)

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Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports. The most popular of these worldwide (and by far the most popular sport worldwide) is association football, which can be abbreviated soccer. The English language word football is also applied to rugby football (rugby union and rugby league), North American football (American and Canadian), Australian rules football, and Gaelic football.

Some of the many different codes of football.While it is widely believed that the word football originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.[1] These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports often played by aristocrats. While there is no conclusive evidence for this explanation, the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has been applied to games which have specifically outlawed kicking the ball. (See football (word) for more details.)

All football games involve scoring with a spherical or prolate spheroid ball (itself called a football), by moving the ball into, onto, or over a goal area or line defended by the opposing team. Many of the modern games have their origins in England, but many peoples around the world have played games which involved kicking and/or carrying a ball since ancient times.

The object of all football games is to advance the ball by kicking, running with, or passing and catching, either to the opponent's end of the field where points or goals can be scored by, depending on the game, putting the ball across the goal line between posts and under a crossbar, putting the ball between upright posts (and possibly over a crossbar), or advancing the ball across the opponent's goal line while maintaining possession of the ball.

In all football games, the winning team is the one that has the most points or goals when a specified length of time has elapsed.

History
For the history of only Association Football, see History of football (soccer)

Throughout the history of mankind the urge to kick at stones and other such objects is thought to have led to many early activities involving kicking and/or running with a ball. Football-like games predate recorded history in all parts of the world, and thus the earliest forms of football are not known.

Ancient games
Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC.

It describes a practice known as cuju (Traditional Chinese: 蹴鞠; Simplified Chinese: 蹴踘; Pinyin: cù jū) which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles. Another Asian ball-kicking game, which may have been influenced by cuju, is kemari. This is known to have been played within the Japanese imperial court in Kyoto from about 600 AD. In kemari several individuals stand in a circle and kick a ball to each other, trying not to let the ball drop to the ground (much like keepie uppie). The game survived through many years but appears to have died out sometime before the mid 19th century. In 1903 in a bid to restore ancient traditions the game was revived and it can now be seen played for the benefit of tourists at a number of festivals.

Mesoamerican ballgames played with rubber balls are also well-documented as existing since before this time, and are thought to have resembled football in their earlier versions; but since later versions have more similarities to basketball or volleyball, and since their influence on modern football games is minimal, most do not class them as football.

The Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some of which involved the use of the feet. The Roman writer Cicero describes the case of a man who was killed whilst having a shave when a ball was kicked into a barbers shop. The Roman game of Harpastum is believed to have been adapted from a team game known as "επισκυρος" (episkyros) or pheninda that is mentioned by Greek playwright, Antiphanes (388-311BC) and later referred to by Clement of Alexandria. The game appears to have vaguely resembled rugby.

There are a number of less well-documented references to prehistoric, ancient or traditional ball games, played by indigenous peoples all around the world. For example, William Strachey of the Jamestown settlement is the first to record a game played by the Native Americans called Pahsaheman, in 1610. In Victoria, Australia, Indigenous Australians played a game called Marn Grook. An 1878 book by Robert Brough-Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria, quotes a man called Richard Thomas as saying, in about 1841, that he had witnessed Aboriginal people playing the game: "Mr Thomas describes how the foremost player will drop kick a ball made from the skin of a possum and how other players leap into the air in order to catch it." It is widely believed that Marn Grook had an influence on the development of Australian rules football (see below). In northern Canada and/or Alaska, the Inuit (Eskimos) played a game on ice called Aqsaqtuk. Each match began with two teams facing each other in parallel lines, before attempting to kick the ball through each other team's line and then at a goal.

These games and others may well go far back into antiquity and have influenced football over the centuries. However, the route towards the development of modern football games appears to lie in Western Europe and particularly England.

kick-off 开球 bicycle kick, overhead kick 倒钩球 chest-high ball 平胸球 corner ball, corner 角球 goal kick 球门球 ground ball, grounder 地面球 hand ball 手触球 header 头球 penalty kick 点球 spot kick 罚点球 free kick 罚任意球 throw-in 掷界外球 ball handling 控制球 block tackle 正面抢截 body check 身体阻挡 bullt 球门前混战 fair charge 合理冲撞 chesting 胸部挡球 close-marking defence 钉人防守 close pass, short pass 短传 consecutive passes 连续传球 deceptive movement 假动作 diving header 鱼跃顶球 flying headar 跳起顶球 dribbling 盘球 finger-tip save （守门员）托救球 clean catching （守门员）跳球抓好 flank pass 边线传球 high lobbing pass 高吊传球 scissor pass 交叉传球 volley pass 凌空传球 triangular pass 三角传球 rolling pass, ground pass 滚地传球 slide tackle 铲球 clearance kick 解除危险的球 to shoot 射门 grazing shot 贴地射门 close-range shot 近射 long drive 远射 mis**t 未射中 offside 越位 to pass the ball 传球 to take a pass 接球 spot pass 球传到位 to trap 脚底停球 to intercept 截球 to break through, to beat 带球过人 to break loose 摆脱 to control the midfield 控制中场 to disorganize the defence 破坏防守 to fall back 退回 to set a wall 筑人墙 to set the pace 掌握进攻节奏 to ward off an assault 击退一次攻势 to break up an attack 破坏一次攻势 ball playing skill 控球技术 total football 全攻全守足球战术 open football 拉开的足球战术 off-side trap 越位战术 wing play 边锋战术 shoot-on-sight tactics 积极的抢射战术 time wasting tactics 拖延战术 Brazilian formation 巴西阵式， 4-2-4 阵式 four backs system 四后卫制 four-three-three formation 4-3-3 阵式 four-two-four formation 4-2-4 阵式 red card 红牌（表示判罚出场） yellow card 黄牌（表示警告）

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