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[165] 10.2% of football players in one medical study had a head or neck injury. [165] The most common injury for an Australian Football player is a lower limb injury, accounting for about 60% of all injuries. [165] In Australian Football, injuries as a result of contact occurred 71% of the time compared to other causes of injury. [165]
In Australia, soccer, also known as association football, is the most played outdoor team sport, [3] [4] and ranked in the top ten for television audience as of 2015. [5] The national governing body of the sport is Football Australia (FA) which comprises nine state and territory member federations, which oversee the sport within their respective region.
Why it's called Football, not Soccer - Craig Foster, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2010. Mainstream Aussie press finally adopting the term football as soccer seen as thing of the past - Simon Hill, Fox Sports, 1 October 2012. The drive for 'football' to be king in Australia - Joe Gorman, The Guardian 28 May 2013. (The Guardian has since ...
Mark Schwarzer is Australia's most capped player. The Australia men's national soccer team represents the country of Australia in international association football.It is fielded by Football Australia, the governing body of soccer in Australia, and competes as a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which encompasses the countries of Asia, having previously been a part of the ...
The Australia men's national soccer team represents Australia in international men's soccer. Officially nicknamed the Socceroos , [ 6 ] the team is controlled by the governing body for soccer in Australia , Football Australia , which is affiliated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the regional ASEAN Football Federation (AFF).
The sport's governing body is the United States Soccer Federation; however, it was originally called the U.S. Football Association, and was formed in 1913 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association. The word "soccer" was added to the name in 1945, making it the U.S. Soccer Football ...
Harry Beitzel's 1967 Australian Football World Tour team was unofficially nicknamed the Galahs from their flashy uniform. Though this side was a precursor of subsequent Australian international rules football teams, the nickname has not been retained. Australian Tennis magazine invited readers to suggest a nickname for the Davis Cup team in ...
The Australia national football team represents the country of Australia in international association football.It is fielded by Football Australia, the governing body of soccer in Australia, and competes as a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which encompasses the countries of Asia.