hin guards. The shin guards must be completely covered by the socks. Also the shoes should be cleated, but it is not mandatory to do so. Soccer is not always played outside. There is an indoor version of soccer. Indoor soccer began in 1939. It is a faster version of outdoor soccer. It is played on a much smaller field. The field looks like a hockey rink, except it is not played on ice; it is played on an Astroturf field that is surrounded by Plexiglas. The goals are much smaller than those in outdoor soccer.Substitutions are unlimited because it is so tiring and players never stop running. It was not until 1978 that Indoor Soccer became a professional competition in the United States when the Major Indoor Soccer League was formed. There are three soccer leagues now active in the United States: The seven-team American Professional Soccer League (APSL), playing in the United States and Canada; the thirteen-team National Professional Soccer League (NASL); and the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL), based primarily in the western states. A national team, which includes a number of international-caliber players, has been put together to compete with the teams of twenty-three other nations in the 1994 World Cup, hosted in nine different locations across the United States. Soccer is a game of continuous action. The game is normally played in two forty-five minute halves, with a ten-minute resting period in-between. There are no time-outs and few substitutions. Opposing teams move from one end of the field and back again. The flow of the play is stopped only when there is a penalty or goal. The aim of the game is to score more goals than the opponent. The ball that soccer players use is round like a basketball but one inch smaller in circumference. A team scores a goal when a player can move the ball past his opponent's goal line and put it in the goal. A soccer player dribbles the ball either by pushing it forward with short jabbing kicks...
