Additional time added to the end of a soccer (football) game. Since soccer has a constantly running clock that stops for nothing, alot of "playing time" is wasted away for any these reasons: injuries, a goal scored and the celebration that follows, arguing with officials, substitutuons,
red and
yellow cards, and taking forever on throw-ins, free kicks, corner kicks and goal kicks. (as well as a few other posibilities)
This added time
ia supposed to make up for some of that wasted time.
Stoppage time can be anywhere from 1 minute to 5 minutes long, but is not exact. It always just seems
like the referee can stop the game randomy, and know
one but him knows when the game
will be final.
Person 1: I wish that soccer had a
clock that
actually stops when a problem arrises or nothing is going on.
Person 2: Yeah, that whole stoppage time
thing doesn't make a lot of sense.