I recently heard about association football but don't know much about it. Do you know anything about it?
Association football, or commonly known as football or soccer is a team sport played by 2-11 players.
Oh okay, so association football is just another name for soccer. I know about soccer, a little anyways. I did not realize it could have such a wide range of number of players.
Yup. It amazes me that the amount of players worldwide is up to 250 Million (!) Making this the most popular sport in the world.
Wow! That is amazing. Does the United States have any soccer teams that you know of?
I am not too familiar with soccer here. But I know that they recently had the World Cup. It has been growing since the 1960s!
Interesting! I wonder why the United States doesn't get much into soccer, considering we seem to be very into sports overall.
History of soccer in the United States
The history of soccer in the United States has numerous different roots. Recent research has shown that the modern game entered America in the 1850s through New Orleans when Scottish, Irish, German and Italian immigrants brought the game with them. It was in New Orleans that some of the first organized games that used modern English rules were held.
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- Timeline of a few of the known soccer leagues in the United States
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