football

Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees,kicking a ball with the foot to scoring a goal. Unqualified,it is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears: association football (also known as soccer) in the United Kingdom and most of the non-English speaking world; gridiron football (specifically American football or canadian football in the United States and Canada;australian rules football or rugby legue in different areas of Australia; gaelic football in Ireland; and rugby in New Zealand.These different variations of football are known as football codes.