LET'S FIND OUT SPORTS WHAT IS SOCCER JOE GASPAR Britannica Educational Publishing IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROSEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
Let’s PLay soCCer Soccer is the world’s most popular team sport In most parts of the world the game is called football or association football Both men and women play soccer in schools clubs and on national and professional teams In a soccer game two teams compete to score more points which are called goals The players move the ball around a rectangular field usually by kicking it A team scores when it sends the ball Many people are drawn to the athletic skill and quick thinking that soccer requires 4
into the opposing team’s goal Games like soccer were played in China more than two thousand years ago Similar games were played in ancient Greece Rome Japan and Mexico But the modern game of soccer started in England in the nineteenth century Billions of people around the world watch teams from different countries compete in the World Cup The World Cup soccer tournament is the world’s most popular sports event Every four years teams from many countries compete for the World Cup Compare and Contrast How are team sports like individual sports In what ways are they different 5
