History
of football
This essay is about history of
football. In the beginning, football is a sport played by eleven player against
eleven and they have to play together to get the ball in the opponent's goal.
Moreover, the reasons behind its popularity are the fun and excitement of the
game. Also, the media has a big role in distributing a shine reputation for the
world. The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) organizes
number of tournaments yearly associated with smaller associations around the
world. And some of these tournaments attract the people, so the huge companies
to sponsor these tournaments for advertising of their companies and show their
names for all the people who are watching the tournaments. Also, football started
in china in 2nd and 3rd century BC.it was not most
popular that time now this game is the most famous in the world and pays too
much many for buying players.
Football started in
china by Han family, they made the ball from leather and they were kicking to
each other before making the net as goals. After that the game spread in Rome
and Greeks and they were played for fun. It was popular sport in japan. Some
people said football game had grown in England. In 1848, this game started in England
schools as professional game. They build an academic court and teach the kids
how to play this game. The rule came from England from Cambridge University in
1848, where the England built the first club in 1857 and it was called. football
club, from that (The FA) the football association was built in 1863, which
created the final rule as foul, hands, number of player and the size of the
court. After that, the game had more popular in Europe and world which was the
first match in 1872 between Scotland and England in Glasgow. It had large fans
and that let football game become the first game in the world.
The football game developed by
that time, now there are many type of game. First type is association football,
its regular game as we know if right now it played with 11 players for each
team. Second one is five – a side football is informal game, which is played
with 5 players for each team and the court is smaller than regular, it played
in basketball court with small goal and it can be indoor or outdoor as Futsal
football game but futsal should be indoor only. Also beach soccer, it’s most
famous after Association game. It plays in 3 games each game 12 minute with 5
players and should be on sand. There no rule for this game likes outs or
corner. It created by Brazil and Spain.
Today, there are many tournaments
in the world the most famous is world cup. FIFA world cup a worldwide football
competition that takes place every four years. It is considered as the first
highest event that attracts visitors from all around earth. It started in 1930
where the Uruguay was the first winner in the history of FIFA World Cup.
In terms of records the highest
team that has won this championship is Brazil in five different times (1958,
1962, 1970, 1994, 2002), where the highest scorer of it was Miroslav Klose.
Countries are trying its best in order to host the FIFA World Cup championship
as it will bring tourists and visitors whom will pay and spend in that country.
There are many tournaments in the world not
only world cup. There is the Champions league, one of the strongest tournaments
in the world. The champions of the European countries and their runners
qualified for playing the tournaments. The
UEFA founded in 1955 stand for region in Europe the number of teams 76 or 77 in
32 group stage the most successful club is Real Madrid 10 titles. The first
edition of the European Cup took place during the 1955-56 seasons. Sixteen
teams participated: Milan ( Italy ), AGF
Aarhus ( Denmark ), Anderlecht ( Belgium ), Djurgarden ( Sweden ), Gwardia
Warszawa ( Poland ), Hibernian ( Scotland ), partisan ( Yugoslavia ), PSV
Eindhoven ( Netherlands ), Rapid Wien ( Austria ), real Madrid ( Spain ),
Rot-weiss Essen ( West Germany ), Saarbrucken ( Saar ), Servette (
Switzerland ), Sporting CP ( Portugal ), Stade de Reims ( France ), and Voros
lobogi ( Hungary ) The first European Cup match took place on 4 September 1955,
and ended in a 3-3 draw between Sporting CP and Partizan .
The Football Association
Challenge Cup, known worldwide as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout cup
competition in English football; it is the oldest association football
competition in the world. The FA Cup is organized by and named after the
Football Association. A concurrent women's tournament is also held, known as
the FA Women's Cup.
The FA Cup was first held in
1871–72. Entry is open to all teams who compete in the Premier League, the
Football League and in Steps 1 to 5 of the FA National League System, as well
as selected teams in Step 6. This means that clubs of all standards compete,
from the largest clubs in England and Wales down to amateur village teams. The
tournament has become known for the possibility for "minnows" from
the lower divisions to become "giant-killers" by eliminating top
clubs from the tournament and even theoretically winning the Cup, although
lower division teams rarely progress beyond the early stages. The qualification
rounds and a system of byes mean that the very smallest and very biggest teams
almost never meet.
In conclusion, football is played
daily around the world regardless of age. And from the history there was a huge
concern about it. And over the years it became the most popular sport played in
the world because of media, big companies, excitement, and challenge. To sum
up, football becomes source of money for the professional players who have a
contract for number of years. Football
was the most popular and still and will be for much long time.
