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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, [nb 1] is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
4 Σεπ 2024 · American football is the version of the sport of football that evolved from English rugby and soccer (association football). American football, played with 11 on each side, originated in North America, primarily in the United States, where it eventually became the country’s leading spectator sport.
This is what we know as American Football. On the other hand, much of the rest of the world uses ‘football’ to denote a game played primarily with feet and a round ball. The sport Americans typically call soccer is known as football in countries like England or Spain.
One of the best-known differences between British and American English is the fact that the sport known as football in Great Britain is usually called soccer in the United States. Because the sport originated in England, it is often assumed that soccer is an Americanism.
American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, [nb 1] is a team sport. It is played by two teams with 11 players on each side. American football is played with a ball with pointed ends.
1 Αυγ 2023 · American football is sometimes called ''Gridiron football,'' especially in North America. In the 14th century, a gridiron was described as a metal grid for cooking over a fire. One of the unique defining factors of football was the playing field marked in a grid pattern resembling a gridiron.
Historians trace American football back to two European cousins, soccer and rugby. Both began as kicking games. Soccer- the most popular sport in the world – was originally known as “association football.”
