The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Some Rules of Soccer

Today I will talk about some rules in soccer match. Rule is a very important thing or factor in sports competition. In other words, without rule, sports can't be played well and can't be fair. So, I will introduce some rules about soccer.

The basically number of player for each team is 11, can't be added or reduced at the beginning of the match. Each player as a character in the match. How to get a point? In soccer, if a player shoot (anyway) the ball over the line of opposite gate, it will get one point which mean have a goal. Furthermore, sometimes a team attack to another team. They are called stop by referee because of offside. The meaning of offside is a little bit complex, so I use a professional explaining. A player must be offside the moment the ball is played by a teammate. And to be called offside, the player must also be involved in an "active play" by gaining an advantage by being offside, or interfere with a play, or an opponent.To be offsides, the player must also be on the opponent's half of the soccer field, being closer to the opponent's goal line than both the ball and the next-to-last defender (the goalkeeper is usually the last defender). Offside will not be called if an offside player is not active in the play (FIFA's Laws of the Game: The 17 Rules of Soccer). In addition, if a player fouls in the match, he will has penalty from referee. The degree of penalty will be depended on how the player fouls . It divide to just call stop and give the fouled team start to continue, referee verbal warnings, referee gives yellow card and referee gives red card. If a player gets red card in the match, he will be sent off. Also, If a player gets twice yellow card, he will still be sent off because two yellow cards as the same as red card.