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Revision as of 11:40, 25 October 2002 by Derek Ross (talk | contribs) (sp)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The sport called football in most the rest of the world is called soccer in the United States and a few other countries. The official English name of the sport is Association football. The origin of the word 'soccer' is a slang abbreviation of "Association."
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In Association Football, there is a world wide tournament, named the World Cup. The World Cup involves all national teams from countries involved with the FIFA, and, although people only get to see the final competition, held every four years, the tournament itself begins the year after the previous final competition has been carried. Each of the national teams begin playing in continental tournaments in a process of elimination, until there are only 32 national teams left, which go on to compete in the final competition, which is the two week competition everyone sees on TV.