Bola sepak: Perbezaan antara semakan

 

Urusan Undang-undang Bola Sepak dikendalikan oleh Lembaga Persatuan Bola Sepak Antarabangsa (International Football Association Board). Lembaga ini ditubuhkan pada 1886 dan mempunyai lapan ahli – empat wakil FIFA, empat wakil persatuan bola sepak England, Scotland, Wales dan Ireland Utara. Segala pemindaan Undang-undang Bola Sepak perlu diluluskan oleh Lembaga melalui undian majoriti.

 

Mengikut kajian yang dilakukan oleh [[FIFA|''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'']] (FIFA), badan pentadbir bola sepak, yang diterbitkan dalam musim bunga 2001, lebih daripada 240 juta orang biasanya bermain bola sepak dalam lebih daripada 200 negara di seluruh pelusuk dunia. Peraturannya yang mudah dan memerlukan peralatan yang sedikit tidak syak lagi menolong penyebaran dan tumbesaran dalam popularitinya. Sebelum abad ke-21, sukan ini telah dimainkan lebih daripada 250 juta orang di lebih buah 200 negara.<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>