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Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.

Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears.

Sports commonly called 'football' in certain places include: association football (known as soccer in some countries); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby football (either rugby league or rugby union); and Gaelic football.

These different variations of football are known as football codes.

A football team is the collective name given to a group of players selected together in the various team sports known as football.

In professional football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs.

It refers to the transferring of a player's registration from one association football club to another.

In general, the players can only be transferred during a transfer window and according to the rules set by a governing body.

Usually some sort of compensation is paid for the player's rights, which is known as a transfer fee.

When a player moves from one club to another, their old contract is terminated and they negotiate a new one with the club they are moving to, unlike in American, Canadian and Australian sports, where teams essentially trade existing player contracts.

In some cases, however, transfers can function in a similar manner to player trades, as teams can offer another player on their squad as part of the compensation.

In sports, a coach is a person involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.

A coach may also be a teacher.