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U.S. Soccer Foundation GREENSBORO UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION KICKS OFF SOCCER ON NEW MINI-PITCH AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE CROSS THANKS TO SUPPORT FROM DR PEPPER SNAPPLE GROUP, KaBOOM! AND U.S. SOCCER FOUNDATION Lionel Messi Lionel Andrés Messi (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi] ( By the age of 21, Messi had received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year, in 2009, he won his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. He followed this up by winning the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010, and then again in 2011 and 2012. He also won the 2010–11 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award.

Association football Name The rules of association 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 first written "reference to the inflated ball used in the game" was in the mid-14th century: "Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe".[8] The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word "soccer" was "split off in 1863".[9] According to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "-er" abbreviation of the word "association".[10] Within the English-speaking world, association football is now usually called football in the United Kingdom and mainly soccer in Canada and the United States. History The Cambridge Rules, first drawn up at Cambridge University in 1848, were particularly influential in the development of subsequent codes, including association football.

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