The English are credited with recording the first uniform rules for the sport, including forbidding tripping opponents and touching the ball with hands. As the sport developed, more rules were implemented and more historical landmarks were set. For example, the penalty kick was introduced in Red and yellow cards were introduced during the World Cup finals. More recent major changes include goalkeepers being banned from handling deliberate back passes in and tackles from behind becoming red-card penalties in Soccer, or better known to the rest of the world as football, is one of the oldest sports in history.
Dating back to B. Goals consisted of a net attached to two bamboo poles and elevated 30 feet in the air. This is quite the contrast to modern goals that sit on the ground and extend eight feet high and 24 feet wide. During the medieval period in Europe, particularly in England, games were played in towns that pitted rival squads against one another. This was called Folkball. This would often entail a distance of a few miles between scoring destinations. In , official rules for football were drawn up to create an organized game in England.
These rules formally differentiated between rugby football and association football. Hence, modern football was born. During the Han Dynasty from B. C to A. D a game called Tsu-Chu or Cuju was played as a military exercise. The game may have spread and been enjoyed by local citizens as well. FIFA has recognized the evidence that this is the first known form of Soccer. Cuju is also played in other countries such as Vietnam, Korea, and Japan and is the oldest known game to resemble modern day soccer.
There were various forms of the game, some meant to be played at noble birthdays and feasts, and another played by commoners. The ball used to play Cuju was commonly made of leather and filled with feathers. Much heavier than a modern day soccer ball, and harder to kick long distances. The shoes they wore would typically have protrusions out the bottoms of them, much like modern day cleats. Modern day soccer was invented in 19th century England, mostly played by private school teams and soccer clubs.
Typically, these teams would be members of the town competing to get the pigs bladder to their opponents area or goal, most often on either side of the town. The violent game of folk football was banned throughout some periods of England history, and eventually faded all together when rules were established and field constraints were put into place.
Bringing rise to modern day soccer. At Eton on the other hand the ball was played exclusively with the feet and this game can be seen as a close predecessor to the modern football. An attempt to create proper rules for the game was done at a meeting in Cambridge in , but a final solution to all questions of rules was not achieved. Another important event in the history of football came about in in London when the first Football association was formed in England.
It was decided that carrying the ball with the hands wasn't allowed. The meeting also resulted in a standardization of the size and weight of the ball. A consequence of the London meeting was that the game was divided into two codes: association football and rugby.
The game would, however, continue to develop for a long time and there was still much flexibility concerning the rules. For one thing, the number of players on the pitch could vary. Neither were uniforms used to distinguish the appearance of the teams.
It was also common with players wearing caps — the header was yet to be a part of the game yet. Further reading: The development of football rules. Another important difference at this stage could be noticed between English and Scottish teams.
Whereas the English teams preferred to run forward with the ball in a more rugby fashion, the Scottish chose to pass the ball between their players. It would be the Scottish approach that soon became predominant.
The sport was at first an entertainment for the British working class. Unprecedented amounts of spectators, up to 30,, would see the big matches in the late 19th century. The game would soon expand by British peoples who traveled to other parts of the world.
Especially in South America and India would the interest in football become big. Football clubs have existed since the 15th century, but unorganized and without official status. It is therefore hard to decide which the first football club was. Some historians suggest that it was the Foot-Ball Club formed in Edinburgh. Early clubs were often formed by former school students and the first of this kind was formed in Sheffield in The oldest among professional football clubs is the English club Notts County that was formed in and still exists today.
An important step for the emergence of teams was the industrialization that led to larger groups of people meeting at places such as factories, pubs and churches. Football teams were established in the larger cities and the new railroads could bring them to other cities.
In the beginning, football was dominated by public school teams, but later, teams consisting by workers would make up the majority. Another change was successively taking place when some clubs became willing to pay the best players to join their team.
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