History of Football - E-book - ePub

Ootball is also known as association football or soccer. Thegame is played across the globe in more than 200 countriesby 250 million players. The sport is tremendously prevalentamong the people; children and adults and is also deemed tobe the most exciting games. The more famous and prestigiousmatches attract up to 100, 000 people and more besides themillions who are glued to their television sets.
It is one of themost popular games in the world. There are different forms offootball which can be known in history, normally prevalent asthe peasant games. Modern ciphers of football can be tracedback to the nineteenth century when the systemization ofgames happened at English public schools. Football spreadoutside the boundaries of Britain as the British Empireexpanded their area of rule. By the end of 19th century thedistinctive regional code were emergent: for instance Gaelicfootball intentionally integrated the rules of local traditionalfootball games to uphold their heritage.
The Football Leaguewas founded in England in 1888, which was also the first ofmany professional football competitions. By 20th century manyfootball associations were formed and became some of themost popular team sports of the world.