Football refers to a number of sports that involve,
to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.The various codes of football share certain common elements. There are conflicting explanations of the origin of the word "football". It is widely assumed that the word "football" (or "foot ball") references the action of the foot kicking a ball. There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot. There is no conclusive evidence for either explanation.
