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EVOLUTION OF FOOTBALL BY THE YEAR 2030 How will football evolve? When considering all the external pressures that will be placed upon the sport, combined with traditional opposition from football authorities, any change must evolve from a game that meets the demands and appetite of spectators and television audiences alike and more especially from rival worldwide pay-per-view television and future web-stream corporations. It is clear that FIFA will not budge, so it is natural that another form of football will emerge, most likely from juveniles, which in turn develop into an adult sport that meets the future demands placed upon sporting success. Today’s football fans could find difficulty in understanding the future game possibly called Modern Soccer. While modern soccer football pitches remain much the same with the exception that the halfway line is dotted and used only for start or restarting a game and where the pitch is divided equally into four sections or quarters and where the two middle sections form the midfield area and the remaining two quarters form the end zones or defence zones. This arrangement is utilised to allow the referee officials to temporarily ignore petty fouling in the midfield area, other than to tot up persistent offenders and punish them with a sin-bin penalty, which often leads to a goal under the ‘balance’ that the rules impose. Under the rules a team of eleven comprise five attack and five defence players and keeper whereby defence players are not permitted to enter the opposing teams defence zone. Also attack players are not able to enter the opposing team’s defence zone until after the ball crosses the end zone line. These rules prevent unsightly overcrowding and jostling and rid the sport of persistent offside stoppages. Teams comprises of twenty two players and players are freely interchangeable via an exchange area that prevents an additional player or players entering the field of play and at the top level produce a high energy all action game. More importantly, discipline is ultra strict where sin-bin punishments prevent players disputing referee officials decisions. When a player is dispatched to the sin-bin the advantage is handed to the opposition, which the extra man or woman allows. Players grow up to fear sin-bin penalties. All spot kick, free kicks and throw-ins are taken within set time limits and the rules allow for near non-stop play. In end-zones rules are strictly enforced and fouls or cheating are picked up by human and advance technical systems where seeking to go-to-ground by players is in breach of the rules. Adding to the complications for ardent supporters of association football modern soccer is played for one hundred minutes, in four quarterly session of twenty-five minutes each session with three breaks, the first break of five minutes after the first quarter then a fifteen minutes break at halftime and team change over ends and the final break of five minutes after the third quarter. All sessions must finish on time and no extra time is added for injury stoppages or any other stoppage and after a total of one hundred and twenty five minutes accounting for breaks, the game must end.This meets sponsers advertising needs. There are many more rules and regulations that are all geared to produce a high power hard fought game with few stoppages far less spoiling tactics that blight association football. Even cheating shirting pulling is eliminated by use of clever soccer mittens that prevent players pulling opponent’s attire.It is known that the FA rejected any idea of football mittens ruling there was no need. Certainly there are greater goal scoring opportunities arising and on average much higher number of goals and far more high power continuous action play that association football cannot hope to match. The author of the works modern-soccer 2020 believes that when education authorities are drawn towards a game that imposes strict discipline and the youth attracted to the excitement, challenges and a sport that involves forty-four players, where Modern Soccer will overtake all other sport and attract worldwide participants and audiences. Paul Lehmans