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Football is a sport in which players attempt to kick a ball into a goal, mostly without the use of hands. It's also by far the most popular sport in the world. [[The World Cup]] is the most widely-viewed sporting event in the world with an international viewership of hundreds of millions. Football has been used in peace-making in places like Sierra Leone. During the Christmas Truce of 1914, the Germans and British played football. During a couple of cases of going "over the top", British attackers kicked a football towards the enemy lines (it ended up riddled with bullets along with the rest of them). A World Cup qualifying match between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 was the proximate cause of a war between the two countries that killed around 2,000 people.
The game is most properly called Association Football, which gets abbreviated to "football" in most countries. The British term "soccer" has become more popular in countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia, often to help [[Separated by a Common Language|distinguish it from]] the [[American Football|other]] [[Australian Rules Football|sports]] [[Rugby League|called]] [[Rugby Union|football]], [[My Friends and Zoidberg|it's also the standard term in Japan (サッカー)]] (Interestingly "Soccer" has fallen out of use in the UK and is considered an Americanism). Rivalries between the terms used to refer to the sport can often be just as heated as rivalries within the sport itself.
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