My husband likes Association football and I'm trying to learn more about it.
It is another term for soccer, and it is extremely popular across the world
Does the US have a good soccer team?
Well soccer is becoming increasingly popular in the States.  It is actually the 3rd most played sport in America
Interesting. There are women's professional soccer teams too, aren't there?
Yes, in fact, after the 2015 Women's World Cup, the US team was ranked number 1
Is soccer played in the Olympics?
Yes, it is.  But I would consider the Men and Womens World Cups to be the most popular event.  
What time of year are the World Cups held?
current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the "World Cup Finals". After this, 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they
Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Association football is one of a family