Hello, guys, I was looking at the World Cup official site (not sure why as I usually don't follow soccer), and I have some questions.  Could someone explain how the game of soccer actually works?  How many players are there, what positions do they play, what is the object of the game?  It seems awfully exciting, from what I've heard on radio broadcasts and on TV, but unlike basketball where I can hear the dribbling of the ball, and sometimes I can hear when they actually score the basket, with soccer and the same with American football, you really don't hear that much.


     But it seems exciting, and I just wanna know more.


     Why is it that most of the world is so excited about soccer when most Americans really don't follow it that much?  

     How does the World Cup actually work?  How are the teams selected?  Once a team gets to the world cup, how does the tournament actually work?  If a team gets defeated, say, either yesterday or today for this World Cup, does that mean that they are out of the tournament?  Kind of like "win or go home!", as I hear some of the broadcasters say on some of the NBA games, especially when you're like in Game 7 of the best of 7, or the team who has already won 3 games in a best of 7 has a hcance to win Game 4 and thus send the other team home.


     Anyway, I guess I like sports more than most women, or at least, stereotypically, most women don't like sports.  But I follow basketball and American football, though I don't like baseball much.  And I follow the Nascar races if I happen to be at my dad's house or another family memeber who is watching it.  


     And I also like track and field and gymnastics.  So there you go.


     Hope you guys are having a good weekend.  And hope the soccer aficionados on the list can help me out, 'cause I'm completely ignorant, well, mostly so, of how soccer works.


Take care all.


Ginny


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