How to play Football
For playing football, a big
playground is required. The football field is 120 yards long and 80 yard wide.
The two goal posts are placed at the two ends of the field. Boundary lines on
four sides mark the field. The game is played between two teams. Each team has
eleven players. Among the players of each team there are one goalkeeper, two
full backs, three half backs and five forwards. There is a referee. He conducts
the game with a whistle. At the beginning, the ball is placed in the middle of
the field. The referee blows his whistle, one of the players kicks the ball,
and the game stares. No player except the goalkeepers is allowed to touch the
ball with his hands during the continuation of the game. If one of the players
of a team passes the ball through the goal post of the apposite team, the team
is said to have scored a goal. The team that leads in the number of goals is
declared the winner. The referee conducts the game according to specific rules.
There are also four linesmen in the game who stands in the corners of the field
to assist the referee. The referee is the sole judge in the matter of the
field. The game is divided in two parts of 45 minutes each. There is an
interval of 15 minutes between the two halves. In case of knockout games, extra
time and at last tie-breaker is allowed if no result is reached within the
giver 90 minutes
