The earliest documented cigarette football card appears to be issued from a cigarette brand called Field Favorites depicting Duncan MacLean of Liverpool F.C. However, the earliest cigarette association football cards from a known set are Billy Bassett and Charlie Athersmith from Godfrey and Phillips “General Interest” in 1896.. Football cards were also produced circa 1896 …

Association football is the most popular sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game.With over 40,000 association football clubs, England has more clubs involved in the code than any other country. England hosts the world's first club, Sheffield F.C.; …

A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football.The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby league and rugby union.. It has been estimated that there are 250 million association football players in the world, and many play …

The Adelaide Crows (officially the Adelaide Football Club) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide, South Australia.Founded in 1990. The Crows has fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1991, and a women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition since 2017. The club's offices and training facilities are located …

The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games …

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Kangaroos also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL).. Founded in the suburb of North Melbourne in 1869 and …

Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States and Canada to refer to a sports stadium either purpose-built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multi-purpose stadium which is for a variety of sports. A soccer-specific stadium may host other sporting events (such as lacrosse, …

In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring.. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either side to their left and right, but can be played in threes with or without full-backs.

The Haiti national football team (French: Équipe d'Haïti de football, Haitian Creole: Ekip foutbòl Ayiti) represents Haiti in international football.Haiti is administered by the Fédération Haïtienne de Football (FHF), the governing body for football in Haiti.They have been a member of FIFA since 1934, a member of CONCACAF since 1961 and a member of the Caribbean Football …

Howard Wilkinson and Peter Taylor each had one-match stints as caretaker manager before Sven-Göran Eriksson accepted The Football Association's offer to become the new national coach. Former Lazio coach Eriksson, ... 18 July 2000: Everton forward Nick Barmby moves to neighbours Liverpool for £6 million. 20 July 2000: Charlton Athletic, ...

Uttarakhand State Football Association 41 Western India Football Association 279 By league and division Indian Super League. Indian Super League 1st Division Current clubs Club City ... Forward Club: Agartala: Nine Bullets Lal Bahadur Vyamagar Birendra Club Nobody Sangha Tripura Police Ramkrishna Club Town Club Jewels Club

A volley is an air-borne strike in association football, where a player's foot meets and directs the ball in an angled direction before it has time to reach the ground.A volley can be extremely hard to aim and requires good foot-eye coordination and timing. In general, the volley requires that the player strike the ball with the front of his foot, with the toes pointing downward, ankle locked ...

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football), the sport's global governing body.The championship has been awarded every four …

El Manchester United Football Club, conocido como Manchester United o simplemente Manchester, es un club de fútbol profesional inglés de la ciudad de Mánchester, Inglaterra, que compite en la Premier League.Disputa sus partidos como local en el estadio Old Trafford.. Fue fundado el 5 de marzo de 1878 bajo el nombre de Newton Heath LYR Football Club [4] y se …