TERMINOLOGIES OF THE

GAME
1. Attacker: A player whose job is to
play the ball forward towards the
opponent's goal area to create a scoring
opportunity.
2. Back Heel: A ball kicked using the
back (heel) of the foot.
3. Back Pass: A pass that a player
makes back toward their own goal,
usually made back to the goalkeeper.
This is often a defensive move to restart
a new phase of play.
4. Ball Carrier: The player in
possession of the ball.
5. Bending the Ball: Striking the ball
off-centre so that it travels in a curved
path, ideally for shots at goal.
6. Bicycle Kick: A spectacular move in
which a player jumps in the air in a
backflip motion, kicking the ball
backward over their head. The name
comes from action which mimics their
legs moving as if pedalling a bicycle.
7. Centre Spot: The spot marked
at the centre of the field from which
the kick-off is made.
8. Confederation: Organization
responsible for football in their
region.
9. Corner Flag: The flag marking
each of the four corners of the field.
10. Corner Kick: A free kick taken
from the corner of the field by an
attacker. The corner kick is awarded
when the ball has passed over the
goal line after last touching a
defensive player. The shot is taken
from the corner nearest to where the
ball went out.
11. Defender: A player whose job is
to stop the opposition attacking
players from goal scoring.
12. Direct Free Kick: A free kick in
which a goal may be scored by the
player taking the free kick.
13. Dribble: Keeping control of the
ball while running.
14. Dummy Run: A run by a player
without the ball, to lure defenders
away from the ball carrier.
15. FIFA: The acronym used for the
Federation Internationale de Football
Association, the world governing
body for the game of association
football, which is based in
Switzerland.
16. Free Kick: A kick awarded to an
opposition player when a player has
committed a foul. Free kicks can be
either direct or indirect.
 TOURNAMENTS RELATED
TO FOOTBALL
 FIFA World Cup
The most prestigious football tournament in
the world that has been held every four
years. The first official World Cup was
played in Uruguay 1930, and since when the
tournament has been held every fourth year
(with exceptions for interruption due to the
Second World War). There were, however,
unofficial pre-FIFA World Cups already in the
late 1800s, in a time when only few national
teams existed. Another unofficial "world
cup" arranged before 1930 was Sir Thomas
Lipton Trophy held in 1909 and 1911.
Besides that, the Summer Olympic football
competitions would be a mark of which the
best national teams were before 1930. The
Olympic tournaments consisted, however,
only of amateur teams – the World Cup
became the "real deal".

 UEFA Champions League

The most prestigious tournament for European
football clubs. Has existed since season 1992-
1993 (since season 1955-1956 if its predecessor
European Cup is counted).
— Include winners of national competitions.
— The format is a combination of group phases
and knock-out tournament.
— Champions League was preceded by
the European Cup.

 Copa del Rey

The oldest Spanish competition founded in
1903. Nowadays, the winner is qualified for
the UEFA Europa League and will also play
against the La Liga winner in the Spanish
Super Cup (The Supercopa de España).

 Copa América
Copa América is a South American football
championship that has been organized since
1916, which makes it the oldest national team
competition in the world. It includes all ten
countries of the Conmebol, and since the 1990s
teams from North/Central America and Asia have
been invited to fill up the 12-team tournament.
Since its first edition in 1916, and until 1975,
Copa América was known as “South American
Football Championship".

 UEFA European Championship

The most prestigious national team football
tournament in Europe that has been held every
four years since 1960 and has been expanded
from 4 to 24 teams.
 Confederations Cup
Confederations Cup is played every fourth year,
the one that precedes a World Cup.
— The tournament is including eight teams, the
winners of each of the six FIFA confederation
championships together with the reigning World
Cup champion and the host nation of the
upcoming World Cup.
— The tournament has been held since 1992.
— The 1992 and 1995 editions were called the
King Fahd Cup, before FIFA took over the
tournament.

 European Cup
The competition, also known as European
Champion Clubs' Cup, existed from season 1955-
1956 to season 1991-1992. Rebranded to UEFA
Champions League in 1992.
— Included winners of national domestic leagues.
— The format was knock-out tournament with
two-legged home and away ties.
— European Cup was inspired by South American
Championship of Champions, the Challenge
Cup, and the Mitropa Cup.
— It took over the status that had belonged
to Challenge Cup and the Mitropa Cup.
 Venues (Stadiums)
 Wembley Stadium, London,
England
Wembley Stadium is considered the home of
football and has seen some of the game's
greatest moments. Such moments include
England's 1966 World Cup victory,
Manchester United's European cup victory
over Benfica and Germany's 1996 European
Championship victory, which saw the first
Golden Goal in history.
It is also the annual venue for one of
football's oldest competitions, the FA Cup.

 Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain

The Santiago Bernabeu, home to Los
Merengues, was originally opened in 1947. Its
full capacity is about 85,000. The stadium was
renamed after possibly the club's greatest
president, Santiago Bernabeu Yeste.
Some of the game's greatest players—like
Alfredo Di Stefano and, more recently, Zinedine
Zidane—have displayed their skills at this
stadium.
The Bernabeu has hosted many major finals and
has been the home to one of the greatest club
 teams in world football history during the
1970s.

 Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain

The Nou Camp (or Camp Nou) opened in
1957 and is one of the largest stadiums in
Europe and the world with a capacity of just
under 100,000.
This stadium is currently home to possibly
the greatest club team ever and certainly has
seen its share of great players and teams.
The Catalonia National team plays its home
grounds there.

 Old Trafford, Manchester, England

Old Trafford, also known as the "Theatre of
Dreams," is Manchester United's home
ground and was opened in 1910.
This iconic stadium has seen the best of
George Best and many other greats of the
game. Old Trafford was also home to the
"Busby Babes" and their leader, Matt Busby.
It has a capacity of over 75,000 spectators
and the ever-famous Stretford End.
 Estádio Do Maracanã, Rio De
Janeiro, Brazil
 Brazil's most iconic stadium, the Estádio do
Maracanã, originally opened in 1950 and
is currently being renovated for the 2014
World Cup, when it will probably host the
finals.
The same year the stadium opened, it was
the venue for the 1950 World Cup final,
where Brazil lost— inexplicably, in many
Brazilian's eyes—to Uruguay.Flamengo,
Vasco Da Gama, Botafoga and Fluminese
have all called this stadium home at various
times, and great players like Zico and
Garrincha have played there as well.
This stadium was where Pele scored his
1000th goal.

 De Meer Stadion, Amsterdam,

Netherlands
Amsterdam Arena is the pitch where Total
Football was first displayed to many. That
alone is reason enough to put it on this list.
Still, the fact that a great many fantastic
players, like Johann Cruyff, and some
fantastic Ajax teams also graced this stadium
helps, too.
It was opened in 1934 and has a capacity of
about 20,000. Ajax played some of its biggest
 European home games at the Olympic
stadium due to its greater capacity.
 Anfield, Liverpool, England
Anfield is home to one of the greatest club
teams in English history. Opened in 1884 and
with a capacity of around 45,000, this
stadium has seen some very memorable
moments.
Liverpool remained undefeated at this
ground during several seasons. Various
greats like Ian Rush have sung the club's
anthem, "You'll Never Walk Alone," led by
fans in the Kop end.

 Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany

Germany's Olympic Stadium in Munich was
opened in 1936 and has a capacity of about
70,000.
This stadium has seen some fantastic
moments in German football, but possibly
none more important than the 1974 World
Cup Final.
It is was the former home of Bayern Munich
and TSV 1860 Munich.
 La Bombonera, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
La Bombonera opened in 1940, has a
capacity of about 50,000, and is home to one
of Argentina's greatest clubs, Boca Juniors.
The unique feature in this stadium is that one
side is flat, which is said to have increased
acoustics and helped create one of the
world's best fan atmospheres.

 Parc De Princes, Paris, France

Parc De Princes is the home to PSG and was
originally opened in 1897. Since then, two
other versions have been made, in 1932 and
1972. It has a capacity of around 48,000.
While it is by no means a mammoth in terms
of capacity like many of the other venues on
this list, Parc de Princes has some great
traits.
The fan atmosphere in this stadium is among
the best in the world. The venue has also
been hosted to some great games, like the
1981 European Cup final between Liverpool
and Real Madrid, as well as France's
 European Championship victory over Spain in
1984.

SPORTS PERSONALITIES

 INTERNATIONAL: -
1. Lionel Messi (PSG & Argentina)
(Total Football Goals: 804)
18 Dec. 2022. Lionel Messi, playing in his 2nd Football
World Cup final, won against Mbappe and France. He is
also the highest goal scorer in Football World Cups for
Argentina, scoring 13 goals. He also has the most
appearances for Argentina (26) in the Football World
Cup.
The Argentine great turned 35 this June but even at his
age, the veteran hasn’t lost his ability to weave magic
on the pitch. In his first season away from his childhood
club Barcelona, Messi finished with 11 goals and 15
assists in 34 appearances overall.
2. Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona &
Poland)
(Total Football Goals: 636)
One of the greatest-ever players to wear the Polish
shirt is the new Barcelona man Robert Lewandowski.
Lewandowski ended his eight-year-old association with
German giants Bayern Munich earlier this month,
moving to Spain to join Barcelona but is expected to
maintain the continuity of his form this
year. Lewandowski’s career in the Bundesliga is
decorated with 312 well-crafted goals.
Lewandowski has been named the VDV Bundesliga
Player of the Season a record five times. He has scored
over 300 goals in the Bundesliga (second-highest
goalscorer of all time in Bundesliga, only behind Gerd
Müller's 365 Bundesliga goals), having reached the
century mark quicker than any other foreign player,
and is the league's all-time leading foreign goalscorer.
In 2015, while playing for Bayern, he scored five goals
in less than nine minutes against VfL Wolfsburg, the
fastest by any player in Bundesliga history as well as
any major European football league for which he was
awarded four Guinness World Records.
3. Cristiano Ronaldo (Al Nassr & Portugal)
(Total Football Goals: 819)
30 Dec. 2022. Saudi Arabia club Al Nassr signed
Cristiano Ronaldo till 2025. Ronaldo received the
highest football salary in history, worth €200 million per
year.
There is almost no silverware that Ronaldo has failed
to win over the course of his illustrious career. Having
started his career as a winger, the 37-year-old shifted
up the pitch and is currently employed as the lone
striker both by his club as well as his national team
Portugal.
His country depends a lot on his ability to take their
team home from precarious situations. Ronaldo finished
last season with 24 goals for Manchester United and
was one of the Premier League’s top goal scorers.
4.Kylian Mbappe (PSG & France)
(Total Football Goals: 272)
18 Dec. 2022. Kylian Mbappe is France's second
highest goal scorer in Football World Cups. He has
scored 12 goals in 2 editions, just behind Just Fontaine
record of 13 goals in the 1958 World Cup.
Mbappe is officially one of the fastest footballers in the
world, with an ability to clock a sprint speed of
38km/hour. Paris Saint-Germain’s hard-drawn efforts to
keep hold of him this summer is testament to what he
brings to the team consisting of the likes of Neymar
and Messi.
PSG trusts Mbappe to run with the ball from the
midfield and find the back of the net on a regular basis.
The Frenchman finished the season with 39 goals from
46 appearances for his club last season and was a key
player for France throughout the 2022 Football World
Cup.
5. Neymar (PSG & Brazil)
(Total Football Goals: 434)
Last but not least is the Brazilian who has seen a lot of
his talents being wasted due to multiple injury issues
he has had to face over the course of his career. In
spite of that, Neymar has remained one of the most
popular names in the world of football. His country
depends greatly on his abilities with the ball.
Neymar is the all-time joint top goal scorer for the
Brazil National Football Team, with 77 goals in 124
matches. Legend Pele also has scored 77 goals in 92
matches for Brazil.
 He is not just a goal scorer but creates them as well.
His dribbling skills are something that many players
would be proud of. Though his current situation at his
club PSG is vulnerable at the moment, there can be no
doubting his abilities.

 NATIONAL: -
1. Sunil Chhetri:
Born on 3 August 1984, Sunil Chhetri is one of
India’s best produce in the world of football. The
striker is a captain of both the Indian national
football team and the Indian Super League
side Bengaluru FC. With almost a million
followers on Instagram, he is famously known as
Captain Fantastic.

Chhetri scored the 2nd highest number of goals

in international matches among active players
after Cristiano Ronaldo. Also, the most-capped
player and top goalscorer for the Indian national
team, with 84 goals in 129 matches.

2. Bhaichung Bhutia:
Bhaichung Bhutia is considered one of the
brightest gems of Indian football. Born in Sikkim
on 15 December 1976, Bhutia came to be known
as India’s best striker of his time. He has been
nicknamed the Sikkimese Sniper because of his
unique shooting skills in football.
Bhutia is famous not only for his great
performances on the field but also off the field.
he was the first Indian athlete to boycott the
Olympic torch relay to support the Tibetan
independence movement. He also has a football
stadium named after him in honor of his
contribution to Indian football.
Bhutia also has Bhaichung Bhutia Football
Schools running under his name football
coaching is offered through 49 training centers
all around the country to kids between the ages
of 5 and 17.

3. Sandesh Jhingan:
Sandesh Jhingan is one of the most famous
football players in India, considering he has
served as a captain of Kerala Blasters FC of the
Indian Super League and the India football team.
He plies his trade as defending player. He plays
as a defender for the Indian Super
League club Bengaluru and Indian National
Team.
Born on 21 July 1993 in Chandigarh, Jhingan got
his football training at St. Stephen’s Academy.
While his training was going on, he helped the
side reach the South-East Asian finals of the
Manchester United Premier Cup. He represented
the Chandigarh state team at the under-19 level
and won the B.C. Roy Trophy. In the recent
Intercontinental cup 2018, Jhingan played a
must-watch game against Kenya and was
honored with the hero of the match award. Since
then, he gained popularity and limelight.