Blog Posts About: world cup

As always, our goal at Common Craft is understanding. When the world's most popular sport (soccer) has the world most watched event (World Cup), it's easy to assume everyone understands the sport and the event. We created a free Soccer Guide to help people who are looking for an easy way to get up to speed.

If you're new to soccer or wondering about the sport and rules, we can help. The Soccer Guide uses short animations to quickly explain things like:

The Format of the World Cup

Overtime and Shoot-outs

Fouls, Yellow Cards and Red Cards

The Offside Call

We're big soccer fans at Common Craft and know that soccer can be perplexing for anyone. By understanding the basics, we hope you can start to see a little more beauty in the beautiful game. 

We want to help you and yours understand the game of soccer and get the most out of the World Cup 2014!

Coming this week, we’ll publish a free online #SoccerGuide that makes learning about soccer (internationally known as Football) quick and easy.

This is not your average guide. It includes over a dozen animations that cover the most confusing aspects of the sport - all in the form of Common Craft explanations.

It's almost ready, and the front page of the guide will look something like this:

We love the animations, which are not videos, but animated GIFs. We call them ExplainerGIFs - an animated GIF that explains an idea.

I've included one below that explains the format of the World Cup tournament. It’s 44 seconds long, loops automatically and has no sound.

If you know anyone who is "soccer curious", this guide will help them understand "the beautiful game". Stay tuned!