Part one of term paper
, or association football as it is properly called, is the world's most popular team sport. Virtually every country on Earth plays the game in some form or another. It is both physically and intellectually demanding, requiring athletic skill and quick thinking. Brazil's Pele, perhaps the greatest player the sport has ever known, called soccer ...

Part two of term paper
... soccer. England, however, was the real starting place of today's game. In 1863 the Football Association (FA) was created and uniform rules were established there. In 1872 the first international game was played between England and Scotland. And it was in England that soccer professionalism was legalized in 1885. From there the game spread throughout the Empire and to the rest of the world. By 1904 an international governing body was established to control the sport the Federation Internationale ...