Watching Soccer In A Pub

You jump and holler with your mates as the match gets underway, proudly perched at the edge of your seat with a heavy pint in one hand, and a fist of hope in the other. The cheer you share ends in a slap on the back, spilling someone's drink yet again, but eyes and nerves are focused on the game and nobody notices that you just sent a river of cider all over someone's dress shoes. Today, soccer, known as football outside the U.S., is played at a professional level all over the world. Millions of people regularly go to football stadiums to follow their favourite teams, while billions more watch the game on television or on the internet. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level. According to a survey conducted by FIFA published in 2001, over 240 million people from more than 200 countries regularly play football. Football has the highest global television audience in sport. 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 forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association". football is widely considered to be the final proximate cause in the Football War in June 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras. The sport also exacerbated tensions at the beginning of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, when a match between Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade degenerated into rioting in March 1990. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=120769