Common Sports

The football (the English association football or simply football) is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each and an arbitrator dealing with the correct application of rules. It is considered the most popular sport in the world, since nearly 270 million people participate in their various competitions. It is played on a rectangular grass field, with a goal on each side of the field. The objective of the game is to move a ball across the field to put it into the opposing goal, an action that is called goal (European Portuguese) or goal (Brazilian Portuguese). The team that scores the most goals at the end of the match is the winner.

The modern game was created in England with the formation of the Football Association, whose 1863 rules are the foundation of the sport today. The football governing body is the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, known by the acronym FIFA. The main international football competition is the FIFA World Cup, held every four years. This event is the most famous and largest amount of viewers in the world, double the audience of the Olympics.

Basketball and basketball is a team sport invented in 1891 by Canadian physical education teacher James Naismith, a YMCA in Springfield (Massachusetts), USA. It is played by two teams of five players, who aim to pass the ball in a basket placed at the ends of the court, either in a gym or outdoors.
 
The rings that make up the baskets are placed at a height of 3 meters and 5 inches. Players can walk the field since driblem (hit the ball against the ground) at each step. You can also run a pass, or shoot the ball towards a teammate.
Basketball is an Olympic sport since the Summer Olympics of 1936 in Berlin.
The name comes from the English basketball, which literally means "ball in the basket." It is one of the most popular sports in the world.