[영어문화연구]About Soccer

1. What is soccer?

Soccer can be defined to a ball game that cannot use hands except one person, goalkeeper. It is organized by 11 people for each team. In detail, there are usually 3 FWs(Forward), 4 FDs(Field director), 3 DFs(Defense), and 1 GK(Goal keeper). One of the FWs is called striker;4 FDs are consists of left wing, offensive mid-fielder, defensive mid-fielder, and right wing;3 DFs are organized by left wing back, mid-defense, and right wing back.

The original name of soccer is association football, and it`s origin is from England. Bill Hutchison who is a writer living in the south of France and thinks soccer is in his blood explains about what soccer is. He says that there is documentary evidence that a game or skill building exercise, involving kicking a ball into a small net, was used by the Chinese military during the Han Dynasty around the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. Earlier evidence of a field marked out to play a ball-kicking game has been found at Kyoto, i…