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Football, also called association football or soccer, is a game involving two teams of 11 players who try to maneuver the ball into the other team's goal without using their hands or arms. The team that scores more goals wins. Football is the world's most popular ball game in numbers of participants and spectators. 

any of several games played between two teams on a usually rectangular field having goalposts or goals at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking: such as. a British : soccer. b British : rugby.

The game played in the 19th century resembled mob football that developed in medieval Europe, including a version popular on university campuses known as Old division football, and several municipalities banned its play in the mid-19th century.

The object of football is to maneuver the ball into the opposing team's goal, using any part of the body except the hands and arms. The side scoring more goals wins.

Noun. 1. football game - any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal.

FIFA stands for "Federation Internationale de Football Association" in French. In English, it is known as International Federation of Association Football.

It is widely assumed that the word "football" (or "foot ball") references the action of the foot kicking a ball. There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in Medieval Europe, which were played on foot.

Walter Camp is considered the “founder” of American football. Camp was an accomplished rugby player from Yale University who began to transform the rules of rugby for a more 'modern' style of play, which eventually developed into the sport of football during the 1880s.

Who Invented Football? The game has ancient origins, but in the late 19th century, Walter Camp helped shape football—the American kind—into the sport we know today. The game has ancient origins, but in the late 19th century, Walter Camp helped shape football—the American kind—into the sport we know today.

After these two sports spread across the Atlantic, Americans invented their own variant of the game that they simply called "football" in the early 1900s. "Association football" became "soccer" in America, and what was called "gridiron" in Britain became simply "football" in America.