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Football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except in 1896 and 1932. Women's football was added in 1996.

Football, or soccer, is played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball on a rectangular field with goals at each end. The objective is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal. It is the world's most popular sport, with 250 million players in over 200 nations.

The modern game originated in Britain, with The Football Association forming in London in 1863 to standardize the game. The term "association football" was coined to distinguish it from other football variants, like rugby. "Soccer," an abbreviation of "association," emerged in the 1880s in British universities. It was an uncontroversial alternative to "football" until the late twentieth century.

Numerical denomination and date surrounded by geometric patterns and Southern Cross.

Crux is a constellation located in the southern sky in a bright portion of the Milky Way, and is the smallest but one of the most distinctive of the 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped or kite-like asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross.