Football and soccer are two ends of one sport. Football and soccer are two different sports in United States’ and Canadian sport scenario, but these two names refer to one sport in United Kingdom. Thus, what Americans call “soccer” is “football” across rest of the globe and that’s why we usually refer this sport as British Football and American Soccer. The international governing body of this sport is known by the name “FIFA”, the International Federation of Association Football. This clears all confusion about this sport’s entity.
A popular global sport
This sport is taken as one of the most favored recreational activities across the globe. In actual, this sport begins at school level for leisure time sport and for competitions. The competitions of this sport are organized both on amateur and professional levels. Football is outdoor physical sport and a physical activity which is no less than strenuous workouts.
This is a great part of this sport activity which makes it an interesting and most lovable global sport and many football or soccer competitions are organized by national and international level sport bodies; FIFA World Cup, FIFA Club World Cup and FIFA Confederations Cup are the names to mention in popular international competitions. UEFA European Football Championship, UEFA Champions League, CAF Africa Cup of Nations, CONMEBOL Copa América and CONCACAF Gold Cup are more competitions besides FIFA-organized championships. FIFA World Cup is the top-most competition in this sport.
Football highlights – choice of worldwide viewers
Football is one of the top 10 most watched sports in the world, and number of worldwide football or soccer fans are even more compared to many other sports. Football mania is not only for FIFA-organized championships, though FIFA is more popular. All major categories of football matches are usually broadcasted live and football highlights are also played on many TV channels, but football highlights are most watched for these competitions. This reflects extreme worldwide popularity of football or soccer sport.