
SPORTS IN NORTH AMERICA AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD´S CULTURE -USA: In this huge nation the most popular sports are American football (NFL), baseball, basketball, ice hockey, soccer, tennis, gold, free wrestling, badminton, boxing and martial arts. American football is played in two teams of eleven players each with goalposts at the end where the offense players try to reach the oval-shaped ball by running with it or passing it with the feet, head, hands or sides while the defense players of the opposite team try to stop it. It started in the Universities (Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, McGill, Princeton and Harvard are in the National Collegiate Athletic Association).but the American and National Football Leagues with the Championship Game or Super Bowl which originated in the colleges ‘postseason bowl games in which the prize was a conference. Baseball originated in bat and ball games brought by English immigrants in the eighteenth century and it is a played in two t...