Football History — I bet you didn’t know this

If you’re reading this article you probably have an idea of what I’m talking about. Its ‘Futbal’, yea, you guessed right. Every sport has a history but none of them as interesting as the history of football. Historic artifacts and enduring traditions make it clear that football has been played in Egypt, Ancient China, and Rome. The game’s basic principles survived through the years and went on to be played during the middle ages.

It all goes back over 3000 years back when man decided to stop playing the regular handball rather to employ the legs and feet in tough tussles for the ball.

Starting from balls made of linen discovered in Egyptian tombs that date way back to 2,500 BC. To around 467 BC TO 221 BC, a sport called cuju (translated as “kick the foot with the ball”) was popularly played in China. Then soccer in Ancient Rome which had 54 players (27 on each team) whose only aim is to get the ball to the opposing team’s goal.

Also was a very popular form of the sport in the mid-14th Century England is called mob football. It was played by an unlimited number of players. At that point, there was still no one who created football rules. While the sport was widely played by youngsters all over England, it was banned in schools because of its fierceness. Lack of rules governing player conduct often resulted in injuries and chaos.

As the 1860s began, rules regulating play and roughness in the field were made. It can be said that the clubs that created more strict football rules are the ones who invented the game as we know it today.

But there was one problem during that time: each club or town played with their own set of rules. So when there were meetings from different teams, it often ended in dispute as to what rules should be followed.

This problem was finally solved in 1863 when twelve London clubs met to discuss common rules for the game. These clubs then formed a governing body called The Football Association, the same FA that holds today’s popular FA Cup.

From England, it easily spread to other European countries such as Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Eventually, these countries gathered to form a governing body of football that will oversee international games and the FIFA came to be.

FA increased the popularity of football and helped in spreading it throughout the world.It became known as football, futbol, futebol, and fussbol in different countries but in the United States it became known as soccer.It has become so popular and even addictive that people stake their cars and life investments on clubs and matches.In fact, if you talk sports anywhere in the world today, and you didn’t talk ‘futbal’ you just didn’t talk sports.

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