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 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 teams

  Sports in English speaking countries The English speaking countries are famous for their popular sports that have spread throughout the world, only in the United Kingdom many famous sports such as football, basketball, baseball, hockey, rugby and many more have been invented or practised there in a professional manner by players. Besides most of the English-speaking countries in the world participate in the international multi-sport event every four years in the Commonwealth Games which reflects many issues about their culture and present day societies. Students of English can get another entertaining, dynamic and passionate way to learn it through the knowledge, liking and practice of any of the most famous sports originated or related to the following English-speaking countries in Europe, America, Africa and Australasia.   - UNITED KINGDOM: here the first football club was created in 1857 (Sheffield F.C.) and it is organized in four associations made up of England, Wales, Sc