Association football, more commonly known as
simply football or soccer, is a team sport
played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to
propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective
of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the
ball beyond the goal line into the opposing side's rectangular framed
goal. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves,
for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million
players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most
popular sport.