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你校英语报正在举办题为“我最喜爱的运动”的征文活动,请根据表格中的信息写一篇短文介绍足球,并谈谈足球运动的益处。
Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players. The game is played on a rectangular field that is 105m in length and 68m in width with a goal at each end.
Football, originating from cuju, can be traced back to as far back as the Han Dynasty of Ancient China. The contemporary history of football spans more than 100 years. It began in 1863 in England, and has been an Olympic sport ever since the second modern Summer Olympic Games in 1900.
It is universally acknowledged that football serves to build ourselves up and to encourage such fine qualities as loyalty, selflessness, cooperation and team spirit. Therefore, it is enjoying increasing popularity; nowadays, it is played by about 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport.