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FOOTBALL Football  is a family of  team sports  that involve, to varying degrees,  kicking  a  ball  with the foot to score a  goal . Unqualified,  the word  football  is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears. Sports commonly called 'football' in certain places include:  association football  (known as soccer in some countries);  gridiron football (specifically  American football  or  Canadian football );  Australian rules football ;  rugby football  (either  rugby league  or  rugby union ); and  Gaelic football . [1] [2]  These different variations of football are known as  football codes . Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular  peasant  games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to  the codification of these games at English public schools  during the nineteenth century. [3] [4]  The expanse of the  British Empire allowed these rules of fo