the quadrennial month-long World Cup finals

Football is the world's most famous ball game in quantities of members and observers. Basic in its chief standards and fundamental hardware, the game can be played anyplace, from true football battlegrounds (pitches) to exercise centers. ----

---- roads, school jungle gyms, stops, or sea shores. Football's administering body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), assessed that at the turn of the 21st century there were roughly 250 million football players and over 1.3 billion individuals "intrigued" in football; in 2010 a consolidated TV crowd of in excess of 26 billion watched football's chief competition.