Soccer

The sport called football in most the rest of the world is called soccer in the United States and a few other countries. One official name of the sport is [association football]?. The origin of the word 'soccer' is a slang abbreviation of "association."

According to FIFA regulations the length of the football field for international matches should be in the range (100-110 metres) and the width should be in the range 64-75 metres. (For other matches the constraints are looser: 90-120 metres length by 45-90 metres width.)

See FIFA, Soccer teams.