Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aleksandr Petrovich Reshetnyak (born October 30, 1948) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. As of July 2009, he works as a director with FC Dagdizel Kaspiysk. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. At the turn of the 21st century, the game was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field of grass or green artificial turf, with a goal in the middle of each of the short ends. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal.