football
Let an agent explain football as a family of codes, relay the distinctions, history and governance of each from official sources, describe adaptive and minor variants, and route questions about a specific code to its entry.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain football as a family of codes, relay the distinctions, history and governance of each from official sources, describe adaptive and minor variants, and route questions about a specific code to its entry.
A family of team ball sports whose codes developed from folk football and nineteenth-century English school games, including association football or soccer, rugby union and league, gridiron football in its American and Canadian forms, Australian rules and Gaelic football, and variants such as futsal, beach soccer, powerchair football, football for players with intellectual disabilities, three-sided football and historical games such as the Boston game; each code has its own rules, governing bodies and competitions, and football in some form is the most popular sport in the world.
What it is for: Not applicable; a family of sports.
It can be explain the family and codes; relay history and governance; describe variants; route to specific codes.
Distinguishing features
Common folk origin
Divergent codes
Global reach
Adaptive variants
What it looks like
Not a visible object; teams playing with a ball on a marked field.
Physical character
FA founded: 1863 year - first codified rules
association football players worldwide: about 250 million - FIFA estimates
How it is recognised
Family of team ball sports
Association, rugby, gridiron, Australian rules, Gaelic; futsal, powerchair, intellectual disability, three-sided football
Association football alone is the most common meaning of football in most countries
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
includes - the most widespread code
descends from - folk games
In practice
Families and kinds
association football and its variants futsal and beach soccer
rugby union and rugby league
gridiron football: American and Canadian
Australian rules football
Gaelic football and international rules
adaptive codes such as powerchair football and intellectual disability football
experimental and historical games such as three-sided football and the Boston game
Standards and regulation
Laws of the Game of IFAB for association football
World Rugby, NFL, AFL and GAA rules for other codes
International federations and anti-doping rules
Concussion and safety protocols
Failure modes and hazards
Ambiguity of the word football across countries
Head injury and concussion, with research attributed
Stale competition information
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.football-artifact
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What football is.
Definition.
Definition
The family of codes.
Definition
Definition.
- What is football as a family, and how do the main codes differ in rules and ball? definition
- Which code does the question concern, given that football means different sports in different countries? boundary
Variants
Variants.
Variants
Variants.
- What are futsal, beach soccer, powerchair football, intellectual disability football and three-sided football? definition
- Which entry fits the specific variant? action
History History.
Attribution.
Origins
Origins and codification.
Origins
Origins.
- How did folk football and school games such as the Boston game lead to the codes of the nineteenth century, as historians describe? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Spread
Global spread.
Spread
Spread.
- How did the codes spread worldwide and become national sports? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific code history? action
Govern Governance and competition.
Sources.
Bodies
Governing bodies.
Bodies
Bodies.
- Who governs each code, and what are the main competitions? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Safety
Safety.
Safety
Safety.
- What safety and concussion protocols apply, with research attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits concussion in sport? action
Context Culture.
Context.
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- What role does football play in national and global culture? provenance
- Which entry fits football culture? action
Media
Media and economics.
Media
Media.
- How are football codes broadcast and financed? provenance
- Is the question about betting, which the model does not handle? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should each code be the primary entry with football as a hub?
- How should governing body sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming variants and historical games; should they be split off?