Soccer History and Information
Ever wonder how the football or soccer games to enter our lives? When and where is the origin of this game? Why is that so many people in the crazy world of this game? Almost every culture has reference to the history of football.
The origin of football / soccer can be found in every corner of the geography and history. Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking, and many more played a ball game long before our era. The Chinese played “football” games date back 3000 years. The ancient Greeks and Romans used football games to sharpen warriors for battle. In southern Central America and a game called “Tlatchi” once flourished.
But it was in England that soccer / football really begin to take shape. It all started in 1863 in England, when two football association (association football and rugby) are separated from their different course. Therefore, the first Football Association was founded in England.
In October 1963, eleven London clubs and schools sent their representatives to the Freemason’s Tavern. These representatives were intended to clarify the confusion by establishing a set of core standards, acceptable to all parties, to govern the matches played between them. This meeting marked the birth of the Football Association. The eternal dispute concerning shin, kicking, tripping and carrying the ball was discussed thoroughly at this and consecutive meetings until eventually on 8 December staunch exponents of the Rugby style final goodbye. They were in the minority anyway. They did not want to participate in a game that forbade tripping, shin, kicking and carrying the ball. A stage has been reached where the ideals were no longer compatible. On December 8, 1863, football and rugby finally split. Their separation became totally irreconcilable six years hence when a provision was included in the football rules forbidding any handling of the ball (not just bears).
Only eight years after its founding, the Football Association had 50 member clubs. The football tournament for the first time in the world started in the same year – the FA Cup, which preceded the League Cup in 17 years.
international matches are being staged in Britain before football had hardly been heard in Europe. The first was played in 1872 and was contested by England and Scotland. This sudden boom of organized football accompanied by an impressive crowd of spectators brought with it some problems that other countries faced until much later. The professionalism was one of them. The first steps in this direction came in 1879 when Darwin, a small Lancashire club, twice managed to draw against the supposedly invincible Old Etonians in the FA Cup, before the famous team of London amateurs finally scraped through to win in his third attempt. Two Darwin players, the Scots John Love and Fergus Suter, are presented as the first players to receive remuneration for their football talent. This practice grew rapidly and the Football Association was forced to legalize professionalism as early as 1885. This development predated the formation of national associations outside Great Britain (ie in the Netherlands and Denmark) by exactly four years.
After the English Football Association, the oldest is the Scottish FA (1873), the Football Association of Wales (1875) and the Irish FA (1880). Strictly speaking, when the first international match, England had no other partner association against which to play. When Scotland played England in Glasgow on November 30, 1872, the Scottish FA did not even exist – it was not founded for another three months. The team England played that day was actually the oldest club in the Scottish club, Queen’s Park.
The spread of football outside of England, mainly due to British influence abroad, started slow, but soon gained momentum and spread rapidly to all parts of the world. The following countries to form football associations after the Netherlands and Denmark in 1889 were New Zealand (1891), Argentina (1893), Chile (1895), Switzerland, Belgium (1895), Italy (1898), Germany, Uruguay ( both in 1900), Hungary (1901) and Finland (1907). When FIFA was founded in Paris in May 1904 was seven founding members: France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain (represented by Madrid FC), Sweden and Switzerland. The German Football Federation cabled its intention to join on the same day.
This international football community grew steadily, although sometimes met with obstacles and setbacks. In 1912, 21 member associations and the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA). In 1925, the number had increased to 36 in 1930 – the year of the first World Cup – was 41 in 1938, 51 years and in 1950, after the interval caused by the Second World War, the number had reached 73. Today, after the Ordinary FIFA Congress 2000, FIFA has 204 members worldwide.