The most popular sport of our country is football.The rules of the game are that the Athletes,using individual management and transfer of the ball partners legs or any other part of the body, except the hands, trying to score it in the opponent's goal the most time in a given time. The team of 11 people, including the goalkeeper. A specially spaced rectangular Playground-the field usually has a grass cover.
  Game time is 90 minutes (2 periods-halves of 45 minutes with 10 — 15-minute break). Unlike other ball games to touch him with hands, only the goalkeeper (within the penalty area), the rest of the players — when you throw the ball into play from the sideline.
  football is also an Olympic sport.16 teams participate in the Olympic tournament: 14 vacancies are played in the qualifying competitions: the champion of the previous Olympic games and the team of the host country are allowed to compete without qualifying matches. In the first stage of the tournament, the matches are held in four groups in a circular system (each with each), then the teams that took first and second places in the subgroups are divided into pairs and continue to fight the elimination. Since 1996, the program of the Olympic games included women's tournament.
   Since 1930 held the FIFA world Cup (as well as Olympic tournaments once in four years, in even years between leap). They are mainly attended by professional players whose skills are paid for by clubs. Football belongs to those sports (there are very few), in which the most prestigious competition is the world Cup, not the Olympic games.
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