SOCCERsoccer

How to play

soccer

players

Positions

Size of field

Size of ball

Officials

skills

Bibliography

Soccer

The sport soccer, which is also called football in most of the world, is a field game that is played with a round ball.

How to play soccer

To play soccer, your require two teams. Each team has goal, that is located behind its team members. The idea of the game is for each team to score as many goals into the oppositions goal. The team with the most goals wins the game.

PlayersSoccer is played with 11players on each team, however in youth leagues fewer players are required. There are names for players' positions. They are divided into four groups.

.1 Forwards

.2 Midfielders

.3 Defenders

.4 Goal Keeper

Forwards role is to attack the goals to score goals for their team.Midfielders help control the game for their

team.

Defenders prevents the opposition to score a goal.Goal keeper stops the ball going into the goals.

Midfield

Forwards

Goal Keeper

Defenders

Positions

Size of field

The field must be rectangle. All over the world, the field must be:. Length: anything between 90m to 120m. Width: anything between 45m to 90m

Ball Size

. 3 - 5 years old size 3

. 6 - 12 years old size 4

. 13 years old and over size 5

Officials

A referee watches over the game along with two assistant referees. The referee is the main judge of scoring and penalties. Each assistant patrols one side of the sidelines and determines whether the ball goes out of the bounds and which team last touched it, as well as whether a player is offside.

Skills Roll back: you use a roll back in a situation where none of your team mates are in front of you, so you roll the ball back and then pass or dribble the ball.

Fake: is when you move your body the opposite way to where you want the ball to go. We use this skill when you want to take on the oppositions players.

Scissor: you us a scissor to dummy the play of the opposite team. We step over the all and cut into one of the sides.

Bibliography

* www.bettercoaching.com

* www.kids-play-soccer.com

* www.spain-football.org/soccer-pitch

* www.wisegeek.com/how is soccer played.htm