English-Spanish translations for football

fútbolEl fútbol plantea una serie de problemas. Football has a number of problems. Seguridad en los partidos de fútbol (votación) Security at football matches (vote) La práctica totalidad de los países juega al fútbol. Almost every country plays football.
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A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team
Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand
American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory
Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory
Australian rules football
Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball
rugby union
Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them
The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President
To play football

Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football
Each team scored three goals when they played football
Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football
They played football in the snow
The player kicked the football
That budget item became a political football

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