Soccer, Football, or whatever you want to call it, is the most widely played sport in the world. No other sport can compare with the international feel that Soccer brings to each match, as people from the world unite to watch their team play.
             Soccer has been around for thousands of years in various forms. There have even been reports of Soccer, in its earliest form, being traced as far back as 1004 B.C. (Reference 1, Paragraph 2). Because Soccer in itself is such a basic game, and can have so many different rules, it is hard to trace it back properly to its original roots. Soccer, the way that it is played today in many international leagues can be traced back to 1848 when Cambridge University where the first set of Soccer rules were compiled (Reference 2, Scroll Animation). The world's oldest official Soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was formed 7 years later in 1855, and still stands strong to this day. Since then, Soccer has spread to every part of the world, and has become the hugely popular sport we know of today.
             Soccer, in its current form, has gone from strength to strength in terms of popularity and competition levels. There are now literally thousands of professional leagues around the world; of all sizes. The most popular leagues include the English Premier League, Italian Serie-A, German Bundesliga and Spanish Primera Division. According to ESPN, the No.1 league team in the world right now is Real Madrid, from the Spanish Primera Division (Reference 3). Each year, the best league teams from Europe compete in the UEFA cup, which is the best place to see the best players in the world outside of matches where National Teams are represented. While the qualifications for the UEFA Cup vary from league to league, you generally have to be a world class team to qualify. The UEFA cup is considered the highest achievement a league team can possibly get.
             The World Cup, the one trophy that every soccer player or player
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