2 Football Leagues and their Differences

Why is American Football sometimes confused with Euopean Football? They don't use the same balls. They have different rules. They look nothing a like but yet people still get the 2 confused. The difference is just simply by definition. Football is a sport where the hands are used to control the ball during the game. Where Euopean Football or what we know it as, Soccer is controled by the feet and only the goalie can use his or her hands to stop the ball from going into the net.

American Football

• played with a ball that is shaped like a lemon
• when the ball carrier is tackled it is considered a down
• the play starts again in a formation where one team has the ball and the other defends.
• Unlike in soccer, you are allowed to tackle or bring the player with the ball to the ground
• Yellow flags are thrown by the refs in american football for penalties such as holding, facemask tackle, unsportsman like, clipping, and offsides on the offsense or defense

European Football

• A football match has two halves of 45 minutes each
• A referee and two linesmen supervise the game
• A player can use any part of his body except the hands and arms
• yellow and red cards are given out by the refs depending on how severe the penalty is. If youre awarded a red card, youre thrown out of the game and suspended for the next one

European football was created before American football was in the turn of the 21st century. American football has only been around since 1869 when the Rutgers played Princeton, 2 college teams now a days.