SPORTS:

FOOTBALL

About football• Football refers to a number of team

sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball  to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears. Sports commonly called 'football' in certain places include: association football (known as soccer in some countries).

Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular  peasant  games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games .English public schools during the nineteenth century. The expanse of the British Empire  allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire, though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage.[6] In 1888, The football league  was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional  football competitions. During the twentieth century, several of the various kinds of football grew to become some of the most popular team sports in the world.

Football equipment

Cleats or studs

Studs• Cleats or studs are protrusions on the

sole of a shoe, or on an external attachment to a shoe, that provide additional traction on a soft or slippery surface. In American English the term cleats is used  to refer to shoes featuring such protrusions. This does not happen in British English; the term 'studs' is never used to refer to the shoes, which would instead be known as 'football boots’.

Legends of footballNAME OF THE PLAYER INTERNATIONAL TEAM CLUBS

1. PELE BRAZIL SANTOS

2. LIONEL MESSI ARGENTINA FC BARCELONA

3. MARADONA ARGENTINA BOCA JUNIORS

4. RONALDO BRAZIL BARCELONA ,REAL MADRID

5. RONALDHINO BRAZIL FC BARCELONA

Lionel Messi • Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (Spanish pronunciation: [ born

24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and rated by many in the sport as the greatest of all time, Messi is the only football player in history to win the FIFA Ballon d'Or five times, four of which he won consecutively, and the first player to win three European Golden Shoes. With Barcelona he has won seven La Liga titles and four UEFA Champions League titles, as well as three Copa del Rey titles. A prolific goal scorer, Messi holds the Guinness World Records titles for most goals scored in La Liga (296, a La Liga season (50), a calendar year (91), a Champions League match (five), and most Champions League seasons

Messi’ s achievements

GROUP MEMBERS1. G. Sri Harsha (Group Leader)2. Pranidhi (Group Leader) 3. P .Sri Harsha4. Vartika Vaid5. M. Shiva6. Vennela7. Sandeep8. Saba9. Vimuktha10. Afridi