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Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball . It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies , making it the world ' s most popular sport . The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each ___MASK27___ . The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal . Poghos Galstyan ( born on 10 January 1961 in Barsum ) is a former Armenian football ___MASK96___ and current manager who works as an assistant manager with FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast . He has participated in 1 international match for the Armenia national team on 16 July 1994 in a home friendly match against Malta . He is the father of Artush Galstyan . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the ___MASK27___ of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Artush Pogosovich Galstyan ( Russian :    ; born January 22 , 1990 ) is an Armenian professional footballer . Currently , he plays for FC Nika Moscow . He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 2008 for FC Nika Moscow . He is the son of Poghos Galstyan . FC Nika Moscow is a Russian association football club from Moscow , founded in 1999 . It played professionally in the Russian Second Division in 2001 and from 2005 to 2010 . Currently it plays in the Amateur Football League . A ___MASK96___ is an association football position . Midfielders are generally positioned on the field between their team ' s defenders and forwards . Some midfielders play a disciplined defensive role , breaking up attacks , and are otherwise known as defensive midfielders . Others blur the boundaries , being more mobile and efficient in passing : they are commonly referred to as deep - lying midfielders , play - makers , box - to - box , or holding midfielders . The number of midfielders on a team and their assigned roles depends on the team ' s formation ; the collective group of these players on the field is sometimes referred to as the midfield .