Soccer is a universal sport that requires great physical strength, stamina, and endurance. The objective of soccer is to get the ball into the net of the opposing team, and score a goal. Now, this is a sport where players are not allowed to use there hands when moving the ball up and down the field. The playing soccer requires use of the feet, and good foot eye coordination as well as the ability to run up and down the field in an efficient manner. Around the world soccer is the most popular sport out of all sports that exist today. This includes football, tennis, basketball, baseball, golf, and the Olympics. Yes, the Olympics. In the year two thousand nine, the soccer world cup was watched by thirty three million people for a period of twenty seven days. This made soccer the most popular in the world, even over the Olympic games which are pretty popular among the entire world. Yearly, on average, eight million people follow soccer faithfully, sometimes to the point of obsession. Many countries have been known to exile and or kill soccer players that miss the winning shot or that are unable to block a goal from the opposing team.