Bola sepak: Perbezaan antara semakan

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'''Bola sepak''' ([[tulisan Jawi]]: بولا سيڤق, juga di beberapa kawasan di Indonesia: '''sepak bola''') ialah [[sukan]] berpasukan yang paling banyak dimainkan dan ditonton di dunia, yang dimainkan oleh dua pasukan yang mana setiap pasukan terdiri daripada 11 orang pemain. Sebelum abad ke-21, sukan ini telah dimainkan lebih daripada 250 juta orang di lebih buah 200 negara, yang menjadikannya sebagai sukan paling terkenal dan ia juga merupakan sukan rasmi di dunia.<ref name=EB>{{cite web|title= ''"Overview of Soccer"'' |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/550852/football|publisher=Ensiklopedia ''Britannica'' |accessdate=[[4 Jun]] [[2008]]}}</ref> <ref>{{cite book |last=Guttman |first=Allen |editor=Eric Dunning, Joseph A. Maguire, Robert E. Pearton |title= ''"The Sports Process: A Comparative and Developmental Approach"'' |year=[[1993]] |accessdate=[[26 Januari]] [[2008]] |publisher=Human Kinetics |location=Champaign |isbn=0-88011-624-2 |page=129 |chapter=''"The Diffusion of Sports and the Problem of Cultural Imperialism"'' |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?en=tQY5wxQDn5gC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=world's+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=6ns3wVUEGV&sig=SZPKYSDMJBrO1uV4mPxNbKyAuJY#PPA129,M1 |quote=''"The game is complex enough not to be invented independently by many preliterate cultures and yet simple enough to become the world's most popular team sport"'' }}</ref> <ref>{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=Eric |authorlink=Eric Dunning |title= ''"Sport Matters: Sociological Studies of Sport, Violence and Civilisation"'' |year=[[1999]] |accessdate=[[26 Januari]] [[2008]] |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=London |isbn=0-415-06413-9 |page=103 |chapter= ''"The development of soccer as a world game"'' |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?en=X3lX_LVBaToC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=world's+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=ehee9Lr9o1&sig=nyvDhcrPoR8lXhYKE7k4CZYg_qU#PPA103,M1 |quote= ''"During the twentieth century, soccer emerged as the world's most popular team sport"'' }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mueller |first1=Frederick |last2=Cantu |first=Robert |last3=Van Camp |first3=Steven |title= ''"Catastrophic Injuries in High School and College Sports"'' |year=[[1996]] |accessdate=[[26 Januari]] [[2008]] |publisher=Human Kinetics |location=Champaign |isbn=0-87322-674-7 |page=57 |chapter=Team Sports |chapterurl=http://books.google.com/books?en=XG6AIHLtyaUC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=soccer+most+popular+team+sport&source=web&ots=QzydYB5Am0&sig=w_ouIgmegjytYFfWy7k92guTNfU#PPA57,M1 |quote= ''"Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and is an industry worth over US$400 billion world wide. 80% of this is generated in Europe, though its popularity is growing in the United States. It has been estimated that there were 22 million soccer players in the world in the early 1980s, and that number is increasing. In the United States soccer is now a major sport at both the high school and college levels"'' }}</ref> Bola sepak bertujuan menjaringkan [[gol]] sebanyak-banyaknya dengan menggunakan bola kulit ke [[gol]] lawan. Bola sepak dilumbakan ke dalam [[padang]] yang berbentuk [[segi empat tepat]], di atas [[rumput]] atau [[rumput sintetik|rumput buatan]]. Badan pentadbiran dunia bola sepak ialah [[FIFA|Persekutuan Bola Sepak Antarabangsa]] ({{lang-fr|Fédération Internationale de Football Association}}).