Scovone Star Magazine 2016-2017 | Page 42

SOCCER The Most Popular Game In The World Most of the time in soccer you dribble and obey the rules, usually the minimum always are supposed to keep control over numbers of soccer players in a soccer game the ball. Dribbling is basically just softly at once is seven. kicking the ball in front of you while not At the end of a soccer game, the team with letting the other team get the ball and keeping control over the ball. If you have the most amount of goals on the other team’s goal win the game. Whenever a an open space in front of you while you have the ball, feel free to dribble the ball player commits a foul inside their team’s into that space and look for a pass to one of your teammates who are open for them to shoot and score on the opponent’s goal. penalty box on one of the other team’s players, the players on the other team get a penalty kick where the goalie tries to block a shot from one of the players on the other team. Whenever a player on one team The Rules Of Soccer breaks a rule or hurts a player on the other Even though soccer is a fun game and most team, the other team’s players get to kick of the time is, it can also get you a yellow the ball where one of their players got hurt or red card. There are lots of rules in or where someone on the other team broke soccer but this article will tell most of the basic rules. An international soccer game is 90 minutes long. An international game is the game of soccer, when adults play a rule. In a soccer game, nobody can use their hands except for the goalie inside their own penalty box. soccer on a much bigger field than kids and a bigger time length. The 90 minutes So basically soccer is more than just are divided into two, forty five minute halves. Normally to start a soccer game the kicking the ball. Some people think it’s just referee does a coin toss, and whoever wins win or or lose, just have fun and play fair, the coin toss picks their half of the field and you also get to travel to many interesting places. Chaka Daley , Michigan and starts the game or the referee hold a one or a two behind their back and whatever team picks the right one they pick their half of the field and start the that but it’s not. It’s a game (or sport) ,that soccer coach says, “Soccer has given me many great experiences ...and I have traveled all over the world.” game.The referee’s responsibility is to make sure that the players on the field – 42 –