# Welcome to Football AI  v2

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**Football tip:** The rules of football regarding equipment, field of play, conduct of participants, and settling of results are built around 17 laws.
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## Background

**Football**, also called **association football** or **soccer**, game in which two teams of 11 players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, try to maneuver the ball into the opposing team’s goal. Only the goalkeeper is permitted to handle the ball and may do so only within the penalty area surrounding the goal. The team that scores more goals wins.

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The market size is very huge and it covers a wide range of areas. Athletes, clubs, teams, events, brokerage firms, venues, equipment, training institutions and media form the perfect and evolving ecosystem chain of sports industry.&#x20;

With the development and growth of Internet, especially of mobile Internet, sports industry has been massively migrating from traditional channels to mobile Internet and expanded continuously through the mobile Internet.&#x20;

> Information, data, live streams, videos and other contents have spread rapidly with mobile Internet.&#x20;
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> With the help of mobile Internet's capability, social communities and networks of sports users in the world are built to further expand influence and user stickiness of sports industry at the same time.
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> — From the Wikipedia

## Abstract

With the increasing popularity of blockchain technology, **FAT AI** hopes to fill the space for blockchain-based applications in the sports industry through blockchain technology, which is a sun-rise industry all over the world.&#x20;

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**Football AI** makes use of blockchain technology, which combines application and analysis situations of football industry and sports ecosystem chain, and will issue its native cryptographic token **Football AI Token(FAT)** for use on the Football AI public blockchain. With the help of smart contracts and token systems, it offers both convenient prediction, analysis and match win rate for football lovers, and it is planned that the ecosystem will support Scanning, projection, sports information, sports IP asset trading and promoting platforms, prediction entertainment platforms, application open platforms etc.&#x20;

## History&#x20;



Got 6 minutes? Check out a video overview of football history:

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## Quick links

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[football-artificial-intelligence](overview/football-artificial-intelligence)
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{% content-ref url="overview/our-features" %}
[our-features](overview/our-features)
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{% content-ref url="getting-started/getting-set-up" %}
[getting-set-up](getting-started/getting-set-up)
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