| Football is the most popular sport in the | | | | |
| world; in South America, Brasilia, France, | | | | Football popularity often leads to rivalry, |
| U.K people play football, visit football | | | | which sometimes develops into hooliganism. |
| matches, watch football games on TV and | | | | Fights between supporters of different teams |
| discuss them with friends and read updated | | | | usually occur after football matches. |
| football news. The games of elite football | | | | Sometimes football rivalry brings to tragedy |
| groups attract thousands of people. For | | | | on stadiums. At the mass brawl in May 2007, |
| instance, the capacity of Salt Lake Stadium | | | | hundred Liverpool fans fought each other in |
| in India is 120,000 people, and of Beaver | | | | Athens, hoping to get a ticket for the game. |
| Stadium in U.S.A - 107,282 people. In World | | | | Another tragic event took place at the |
| Championship the stadiums are often full, and | | | | Hillsborough stadium on April 15, 1989, |
| many people don't manage to get tickets in | | | | causing the death of 96 people. The |
| time. | | | | unprecedented influx of fans through a narrow |
| | | | tunnel leading to the stadium has caused a |
| FIFA includes 208 different national | | | | major crush. |
| federations. Many countries consider football | | | | |
| a part of their national heritage, and refer | | | | Football has always maintained a foothold in |
| to football games as to representative of the | | | | the fans' enthusiasm. Most of the largest |
| country's national ideas. Football fans | | | | stadiums in the world are used for football, |
| create special magazine, which presents | | | | because of its enormous popularity. One of |
| latest football news and events, such as | | | | the main interest in this sport is the |
| transfers of the players, and of season, | | | | football transfer rumours part. Raising |
| changing of managers and coaches et cetera. | | | | awareness of the violence among football fans |
| Publishers and editors of fanzines often | | | | might help to reduce the danger of tragedies |
| receive no financial compensation; fanzines | | | | and save the rightfully owned popularity of |
| are often distributed free of charge or for | | | | the game. |
| nominal cost only. | | | | |