Added: 02/22/2006 |
Professional Soccer Competitions - More Tournaments than you can HandleSoccer is based on the rugby. The meeting in 1869 in New Jersey was the first match on soccer. But it looked like rugby firstly. The soccer became popular in the universities. In 1876, the Football Association of colleges appeared. In that year official rules appeared. In the nineteenth century the American football became a professional sport.
National Football League (NFL) was created in 1920. In 1922, American Football League (AFL) was formed. In ten years they united. NFL is divided into American and National Conferences. Nowadays there are thirty two clubs in NFL. So why the heck are we mistaking American Football with Soccer? The balls are completely different. One is oblong - probably the same shape as the head of anyone who mistakes soccer for American Football. The other ball is round.
Today the soccer is very popular over the world. And there are many soccer competitions in the world. National soccer competitions are very popular.
For example, the championship of NFL and games "play-off" are the most popular soccer competitions in the USA. "Superbowl" is the final math. It takes place at the end of January. The winner gets Lombardi Trophy. For the first time this final took place in 1967. Only winners of National and American conferences of the National Football League can take part in the Superbowl. It is the main sport event of the year in the USA. The team-winner becomes the champion of the previous year. Every Superbowl has sequence number.
The magazine "Time" called the day when Superbowl takes place "the biggest time-out" of America because the business life stops and everybody hurries to see this match. About 125 millions of people in the USA saw the last match. And 750 million people saw it abroad. About fifty million people visit matches of National Football League.
Even presidents rarely missed the Superbowl. Superbowl is regarded more important than any political event. Once it happened that when in 1895 days of the president inauguration and Superbowl coincided. But the president inauguration was put off.
There are international soccer competitions and national soccer ones. Superbowl is a magic word for Americans. Usually all tickets are sold out before the competition. The ticket price sometimes reaches two hundred dollars or even more than one thousand dollars. .
There is not a match in the world like Superbowl, which annually attracts so many people not only in the USA, but from other countries, too. Other popular soccer competitions are Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl and Peach Bowl.
Remember, soccer has a World Cup. Football has a Superbowl. They are as different as oil and water.
Soccer is the sport number One in the USA. And it will remain number One there. The American football is like a virus in the USA. If a person goes to see the soccer match he will want to see it once more so in the USA about half of the population "suffers from this virus". But the most interesting fact is that people who love the soccer very much don't hurry to get it off. They send their children to soccer clubs. Then some of them turn out in the prestigious soccer clubs which take part in different prestigious soccer competitions. Every soccer player dreams to be a famous player in the sport number One.
Thus, the soccer in the USA is the most popular sport. There are many professional and non-professional clubs there. National Football League (NFL) is the most famous in the soccer sport. It carries some prestigious soccer competitions. Superbowl is among them. Other soccer competitions are Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl and Peach Bowl.
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