Football

 Football

Football is a wonderful sport where the aim of the game is to kick the ball into the other team’s goal. In football, you are only allowed to use your feet unless you are the goalkeeper. 

The ´Foot` in Football

In football, most of the time you can only use your feet. When you use your feet there are only certain things you can do. This means you cant go around kicking people on the other team as it has to be fair.

Defending

In football, if you had to defend against their team you would try and tackle them. There are some safe ways to tackle such as just kicking it through their legs. However, there are also some unsafe ways to tackle like a slide tackle.

The Dangers Of Tackling

As long as you touch the ball most kinds of tackling are legal however sometimes you can’t do certain things. If you were to slide tackle somebody and you touched the ball first the ball would be considered your ball. This would mean that if they fell down you would not be punished because they were trying to tackle you. However, if you hit them before you hit the ball that would be a fowl and you would be punished.

Fowling

If I fowled somebody in football I need to be punished so sometimes I will be given a yellow card. If you are given two yellow cards you are sent off the field and no subs are allowed to replace you. Normally though the other team is awarded a free-kick which means they get a run-up and nobody else can kick it. It gives them the chance to smash the ball as far up the pitch as possible. If it is in the goal area (called a box) then they are awarded a penalty where nobody is allowed in front of them, and they take a shot at the goal with just the keeper in there.

Goalkeeper And Shooting

In football, there are two goals, one on either side, the aim is to get around all of the defenders and shoot at the goal. In the goal, though there is the goalkeeper and he is allowed to use his hands to stop the ball. If he does then he can do what he wants with it but if he doesn’t stop it it’s a goal and you get a point. The goalkeeper’s job is to defend the goal from the ball and in the box, he is allowed to use his hands, however, he is not allowed to pick up the ball outside of the ball.

Teams

In football, you have eleven people per side on the pitch at one time. They can be defenders, strikers, midfielders and a goalkeeper. Your team can go in any pattern as long as they have a goalkeeper. However, they also have lots of subs and reserves that can fill in for anyone.

In football, you can have lots of fun with friends or just play in tournaments to socialise and meet new people. It’s a very inclusive sport and as long as you have legs you can play. You can meet up with people through it and do stuff together afterward but it is a very unique sport that people generally thoroughly enjoy.

By Cormac