THE FIELD
Football is played on a rectangular piece of land covered with grass or artificial turf with two goal posts in the middle of the either extremes. It is 105 m long and 68 m wide. The field is marked by various lines drawn on the field. The longer boundary line are called touch lines. The shorter boundry lines on which the goal posts are placed are called goal lines.
A half-way line connecting the touch lines divides the field into two equal halves. On the middle of the half-way line is located the center circle. It has a radius 9.15 meters. The center of this circle is called 'center spot'.
The goal area is marked by two lines which extended 5.5 m from the inside of each goalpost at the right angles to the goal line. The lines and are joined by a line drawn parallel to the goal line.
Penalty area is a rectangular box around the goal which extends 16.5 m each side of the goal and 16.5 m in front of it.
A penalty mark( or penalty spot) is put 11 m from the goal line. It is located at the midpoint of the goal posts. The spot is use for penalty kicks.
A penalty arc is also called 'the D', adjoins the penalty area, and encloses the area in 9.15 m from penalty spot, Penalty arc does not form a part of the penalty area.
Flag posts of length 1.5 m are placed at the four corners of the field and quarter circles with a radius of 1 m are drawn around them inside the field.
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