Football Popularity

Football is the most popular sport in the world; inFootball popularity often leads to rivalry, which
South America, Brasilia, France, U.K people playsometimes develops into hooliganism. Fights
football, visit football matches, watch footballbetween supporters of different teams usually
games on TV and discuss them with friends andoccur after football matches. Sometimes football
read updated football news. The games of eliterivalry brings to tragedy on stadiums. At the
football groups attract thousands of people. Formass brawl in May 2007, hundred Liverpool fans
instance, the capacity of Salt Lake Stadium infought each other in Athens, hoping to get a
India is 120,000 people, and of Beaver Stadium inticket for the game. Another tragic event took
U.S.A - 107,282 people. In World Championship theplace at the Hillsborough stadium on April 15, 1989,
stadiums are often full, and many people don'tcausing the death of 96 people. The
manage to get tickets in time.unprecedented influx of fans through a narrow
FIFA includes 208 different national federations.tunnel leading to the stadium has caused a major
Many countries consider football a part of theircrush.
national heritage, and refer to football games asFootball has always maintained a foothold in the
to representative of the country's national ideas.fans' enthusiasm. Most of the largest stadiums in
Football fans create special magazine, whichthe world are used for football, because of its
presents latest football news and events, such asenormous popularity. One of the main interest in
transfers of the players, and of season, changingthis sport is the football transfer rumours part.
of managers and coaches et cetera. PublishersRaising awareness of the violence among football
and editors of fanzines often receive no financialfans might help to reduce the danger of tragedies
compensation; fanzines are often distributed freeand save the rightfully owned popularity of the
of charge or for nominal cost only.game.