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Soccer, or better known to the rest of the world as football, is one of the oldest sports in history. Dating back to 206 B.C., there are accounts of Chinese soldiers playing Tsu’chu, “kicking the ball,” to supplement their training regiments during the Han Dynasty. Tsu’chu was the first to not allow hands. Goals consisted of a net attached to two bamboo poles and elevated 30 feet in the air. This is quite the contrast to modern goals that sit.

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Time stops when the Brazilian team takes the field to defend the colors of its flag. For Brazilians, soccer is more than a sport, it is a lifestyle

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The most popular sport is soccer. The Ecuador soccer team played a prominent role in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, in which it qualified for the round of 16, despite being its second participation in a World Cup and being in one of the most demanding groups of the tournament .

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Soccer is the most popular sport in Argentina, the one with the most federated players, and the most practiced recreationally by the male and female population, since childhood, in which it reaches almost all of them, until beyond sixty years.

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Soccer is the "most practiced sport in Chile", mostly at the male level in popular urban areas. Its organization is in charge of the Chilean Football Federation, created in 1895, affiliated to the International Federation (FIFA) since 1913 and one of the founders of the South American Confederation (Conmebol) in 1916.

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1.- The field of play must be rectangular, divided into two halves, marked with lines that will belong to the areas they demarcate.

2.-The ball must be spherical, made of leather or some other suitable material, its circumference must be between 70 and 68 cm. It cannot weigh more than 450 g or less than 410.

3.- The maximum number of players is 11 players per team.

4.- The players' equipment is: T-shirt, shorts, socks, shin pads, footwear.

5.- The game must be controlled by the referee who will have full authority to enforce the rules of the game.

6.- 2 assistant referees can be appointed.

7.- The game must last two periods of 45 min each.

8.- The kick-off is a way of starting or resuming the game.

9.- The ball is out of play when it completely crosses the touchline or goal line or if the match is interrupted by the referee.

10.- the team that scores the highest number of goals will be the winner.

11.- A player is offside if he is closer to the opponent's goal line than the ball and the penultimate opponent.

12.- A foul outside the area is sanctioned with a free kick, and those that are within the common area are penalized by a penalty kick.

13.- Free kicks can be direct or indirect.

14.- The penalty kick will be awarded against the team that commits an offense that warrants a direct free kick.

15.- The throw-in is a way of resuming the game, and is awarded to the opponent to the team that has touched the ball for the last time.

16.- The goal kick is another way to restart the game,

17.-. The corner kick, when the ball has crossed the goal line.