Although it is a sport from its roots to the Middle Ages and even the old days, football was never really having played a series of strict rules until 1863.
On 26 Gathered in October in 1863 some amateur and semi-professional clubs from England in London and founded the Football Association and developed a "constitution" for the game, including a series of standardized soccer.Obviously the Laws of football "as they those days were called just a set of basic soccer rules, and they wereNot all aspects of the game.
The main points were covered by the Football Association in relation to violence on the field, how often tense confrontations in no-rules match, bloody brawls between the teams. Since football is constantly evolving and the rules began, was more and more of the principles of the game and also the adaptation to the football-playing age is it in.
A simple example would be the offside rules, which was later introduced into the game, asResults became more and more tactical.
Without the offside attacker would often have a hibernating role in the team, just come forward and remain waiting for the ball, that is, with the new rule, they were forced out as much as the other players are working on the field.
Let's take a look at some of the official soccer rules of today and give them a little explanation as to why they are there and its impact on the game:
Football field dimensions - because not all of football --Pitches just might be the same size stocks, FIFA decided a small length and width thresholds in order for a pitch to be played. So the minimum length of a football field is 100 feet (90 meters), while the maximum length must be 130 meters (120 feet).
A larger size difference was allowed for the width, which can be as small as 50 meters (45 feet) and as large as 100 feet (90 meters). You may have noticed that the minimum length agrees with the maximum width! AlthoughIndeed, remarkably, could be a football actually played on a square box, but for entertainment, no one is built, the type of partition (yet) to happiness.
Number of players - The official soccer rules book states that each team can field with 11 players (of which one enters) is the goalkeeper.
The number of, however, depend on the competition in the game is played, but may in the official FIFA matches, the number of deputies from zero to 7 range, with 3 substitutions eligiblefor each of the two teams.
However, in friendly matches, it is often the case that both teams agree to a fixed number of substitutions, or just all-out and let each bank players in the game at some point to receive, instead of one of the first team members.
Ball in / out playing football rules - The ball is in play when the referee whistled not intervene to stop a game and when it stays in the play area.
When the ball crosses the goal line or touch-line by morethan half of its volume, then it goes out of play and a goal kick / corner throw, or one of the teams is given (the opposition of the team that touched the least) the ball. If a ball hits the referee, the corner flag, the goal post or other object on the field, the game remains in play.
Fouls - Fouls is one of the most problematic football reigns today, as they easily estimate incorrectly or interpreted by the arbitrators, which are often arguments on and off the field.Theoretically whistled a foul and a direct or indirect kick is given if a player trips, kicks, blows, blows, duties or has an opponent.
But in the fast pace of the game, it is often difficult to see the referee whether a fight touched the feet of the attacker or the ball. Many believe it is a foul, even if the defending player does not touch on the attackers, but has a dangerous operations, such as a high kick.
Goals - Last but not least, the essence of football rulesand the goal of the game itself, the goal.
To a gate of the offensive team has the ball over the goal line on the other team. The attacker can take the ball, head the ball or push it in with a different body part than the other hand (in this case is assumed) Handball.
Not all of the images in the end, the network targets, although such a goal may be revoked if it was achieved after the attacker one of the other soccer rules, such as breaking a defender or fouling theKeeper of the hand control on the ball when scoring on the sidelines or jump from an indirect free kick.
These are the basic rules of football, and though it to get a few minor twists, if you manage to understand them, then you can see and understand a soccer game without any problems. Outside the offside rule, the other official soccer rules are quite easy to understand.