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A player doing a keepie-uppie Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture. The evolution of the sport has been mirrored by changes in ...
knock for six Cricket To surprise or shock (someone). In cricket, a "six" results from a ball that is hit in the air and beyond the boundary of the field. It is the most valuable outcome for a batsman, being worth (as its name suggests) six runs from one delivery. The bowler who delivered the ball is said to have been "knocked for six". [39]
Soccer" was a term used by the upper class, whereas the working and middle classes preferred the word "football"; as the upper class lost influence in British society from the 1960s on, "football" supplanted "soccer" as the most commonly used and accepted word. The use of soccer is declining in Britain and is now considered (albeit incorrectly ...
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, [a] is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Andries Noppert is ready to face Lionel Messi if the Argentina star takes a penalty kick in Friday's World Cup quarterfinal match. Messi has scored 21 goals in 26 penalty kick attempts for ...
A hat-trick [7] [8] occurs in association football when a player scores three goals (not necessarily consecutive) in a single game, [9] whereas scoring two goals (in a single match) is called a brace.
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