A football story - From ancient origins to the modern game

 

The truth is, humans have been playing football-like games for thousands of years. From Southeast Asia to ancient Rome, history is filled with images and stories of people kicking things around, and as such, it is impossible to trace any culture or time as the origins of football.

Texts provide reports of the ancient Chinese military kicking leather bags filled with hair around as part of a training exercise as far back as the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. Later, Greek philosophers tell of a violent sport เกมทันสมัย, which was later adopted by the Roman Empire. A famous depiction of this sport is actually engraved in the European Cup football trophy.

Nevertheless, it is said that the modern game was established when the Cambridge rules were refined by a group of Englishmen who had recently founded The Football Association in 1863. Before this, the sport resembled more contemporary rugby. When no agreement could be reached on whether handling the ball should be allowed, rugby and club football were forced to split. This is where a global sport was born.

Now you are probably wondering how the sport came from being called association football to being referred to as "football" in many parts of the world. The truth is that the word "football" is a short form of vocabulary. The -soc part of the word was taken, and the -er suffix was added to indicate that an action was performed. The word was born out of random use and was really a slang term. However, the advent of football in North America came at a time when another sport was gaining momentum - American football. To avoid confusion, the term football in general came to refer to the European-inspired game.

International matches began shortly after England and Scotland played to a 0-0 score in the first international game ever in 1972. FIFA was organized shortly thereafter in 1908 as a way to standardize the rules, act as a sanctioning body and promote the game. all over the world. This paved the way for the Olympics to officially declare football an Olympic event, as the sport was first played at the 1908 Summer Games in London, England.

Of course, football itself has become synonymous with the world's biggest sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The event was first held in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930, and was organized by FIFA President Jules Rimet in response to football being dropped as an event at the Summer Olympics. Admittedly, the first World Cup was small by today's standards with many European teams unable to compete due to the difficulties of international travel at the time. Nevertheless, the tournament caught international attention and laid the foundation for football to grow into the world's most popular sport today!