Your Guide To The Best Soccer Instructional DVDs Starting With The Highest Reviews.

Soccer DVDs

Welcome to the soccer instructional DVD page. Here we will get to see which soccer DVDs are getting the four & five star customer reviews. Football is the most widely played and watched team sport in the world. The game is often known as soccer, or occasionally association football, to differentiate it from other codes of football.

Because of the game's origins in England and the original supremacy of the four British football associations within the IFAB, the standard dimensions of a football field (or "pitch") are measured in Imperial units with approximate metric equivalents. According to IFAB regulations the length of pitch for international matches should be in the range 110-120 yards (100-110 m) and the width should be in the range 70-80 yards (64-75 m). (For other matches the constraints are looser: 100-130 yards (90-120 m) length by 50-100 yards (45-90 m) width.) The dimensions are sometimes changed to accommodate younger players, but the pitch should always be longer than it is wide.

The rules of football were codified in England by The Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other versions of football played at the time. The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football.