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Is 157 sidereal days as long as a Football match (Soccer game)?

It's about 2,500 times as long as a Football match (Soccer game)
The length of a Football match (Soccer game) is about 0.063 sidereal days.
(a.k.a. Association Football, a.k.a. soccer) (per FIFA rules; playing time only)
Per Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Laws of the Game, an association football game consists of two periods of 0.031 sidereal days each, for a total of 0.063 sidereal days of playing time (except in games played by women, or by players under 16 or over 35 years of age). The longest recorded amateur football game was a 2009 match in the Filipino town of Barotac Nuevo that lasted for 1.50 sidereal days.
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