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Sir Mortimer Durand who was then the India's Foreign
Secretary at Army Establishments founded the The first
national trophy contested by six teams at its inception.
A number of lubs and tournaments proliferated all over
the country over the years especially in Bombay , bangalore,
Calcutta and Hyderabad. Apart from the National Championships
The Durand, the DCM, I.F.A shield, the Rovers and the
Nehru Tournaments, Little Durand tournaments, etc has
provided us many talented footballers.In the Olympic
Football at the London games in 1948 india made the
debat. In 1951 in New delhi India first won the Football
Gold at the inaugural Asiad.
Women in india have also
been into Football with a considerable achievement.
They grabbed the 3rd place in 1984 in the Asian Womens
Cup Football Championship held in Hong Kong.
The Game Explained-
Football is a team game
in which players try to score points by placing goals
by passing or dribbling the ball down to the oppsoing
defenders goal net.At the starting of the game , choice
of ends and the kick off is decided by the toss of a
coin.The team winning the toss will have the option
of choice of ends or the kick off. The referee having
given a signal the game is started by a player taking
a place-kick (i.e. a kick at the ball while it is stationary
on the ground in the centre of the field of play) into
his opponents half of the field of play. Every player
is in his own half of the field and every player of
the opposing team of the kicker remains not less than
10 yards from the ball until it is kicked off. The kicker
will not play the ball a second time until it has been
touched or played by another player.
After a goal is achieved,
the game is restarted in a manner by a player of the
team losing the goal.
After half-time, when
restarting, end sides are changed and the kick off is
taken by a player of the opposite team to that of the
player who began the game.
TIME Duration of the
Game
The time duration of
the game is divided into 2 equal periods of 45 minutes
each ..Mutually agreed upon, subject to the following.
Allowances are made in
either period for all time lost through substitution,
the transport from the field of injured players, time-wasting
or other cause, the amount of which matters for the
discretion of the referee.
Time is maximized to
permit a penalty kick taken at or after the expiration
of the normal period in either half.
At half time the interval
is exceed five minutes except by consent of the referee.
Ball in and out of play
: The ball is out of play, when it crosses the goal
line or touch line, whether on the ground or in the
air and when the referee has stopped the game.
The ball is in
play at all other times from the start of the match
to the end including if it rebounds from a goal post,
cross bar or corner flag post into the field of play;
off either the referee or linesman when they are in
the field or in the event of a supposed infringement
of the laws until a decision is issued
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