Soccer

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world. {{cite book |author=Frederick O. Mueller, Robert C. Cantu, Steven P. Van Camp |last= |first= |coauthors= |title=Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports |origdate= |origyear=1996 |accessdate=2008-01-26 |publisher=Human Kinetics |location=Champaign |isbn=0873226747 |pages=p57 |chapter=Team Sports |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=XG6AIHLtyaUC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=soccer+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=QzydYB5Am0&sig=w_ouIgmegjytYFfWy7k92guTNfU#PPA57,M1 |quote=Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and its popularity is growing in the United States. It has been estimated that there were 22 million soccer players in the world in the early 1980s, and that number is increasing.