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# Football

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Football is the short name for many sports, the most popular one is Association football, also named "soccer". Football can mean American football (gridiron), 蹴鞫(Ancient china football), rugby union, rugby league, Australian Rules Football, Gaelic football or Canadian football.

The name football is the two words foot and ball, this name comes from kicking a ball, even though in some types of football, you can not kick the ball. The game started in Medieval times, and was played by peasants who were poor people, while aristocrats, who were richer people, liked to play sport while riding horses.

In football the ball is almost always spherical or ellipsoidical.

Types of football include;

- Association football (soccer)
- American football (gridiron)
- Rugby football
  - Rugby league
  - Rugby union
  - Touch Rugby

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