1951 In Association Football
The following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1951 throughout the world. Events Winners club national championship * : Racing Club * : Tottenham Hotspur F.C. * : OGC Nice * : A.C. Milan * : PSV Eindhoven * : CCA București * : Atlético Madrid * : 1. FC Kaiserslautern International tournaments * Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina (25 February – 8 March 1951) ** Gold Medal: ** Silver Medal: ** Bronze Medal: * 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi, India (5 – 10 March 1951) ** : ** : ** : *1951 British Home Championship (7 October 1950 – 14 April 1951) :: Births * 18. January – Renato Zaccarelli, Italian international footballer and manager * 14 February – Kevin Keegan, English international footballer and manager * 21 February – Wolfgang Frank, German footballer and manager (died 2013) * 4 March – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish international footballer and manager * 11 April – Jim Holton, Scottish internati ...
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Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ...
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