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    History of Football
    History of Football
    History of Football
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    History of Football

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    ootball is also known as association football or soccer. The
    game is played across the globe in more than 200 countries
    by 250 million players. The sport is tremendously prevalent
    among the people; children and adults and is also deemed to
    be the most exciting games. The more famous and prestigious
    matches attract up to 100,000 people and more besides the
    millions who are glued to their television sets. It is one of the
    most popular games in the world. There are different forms of
    football which can be known in history, normally prevalent as
    the peasant games. Modern ciphers of football can be traced
    back to the nineteenth century when the systemization of
    games happened at English public schools. Football spread
    outside the boundaries of Britain as the British Empire
    expanded their area of rule. By the end of 19th century the
    distinctive regional code were emergent: for instance Gaelic
    football intentionally integrated the rules of local traditional
    football games to uphold their heritage. The Football League
    was founded in England in 1888, which was also the first of
    many professional football competitions. By 20th century many
    football associations were formed and became some of the
    most popular team sports of the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntroBooks
    Release dateNov 11, 2019
    ISBN9781393902027

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      History of Football - IntroBooks Team

      History of Football

      IntroBooks #218

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      Copyright © 2016 Can Akdeniz

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      Preface

      Football is also known as association football or soccer. The game is played across the globe in more than 200 countries by 250 million players. The sport is tremendously prevalent among the people; children and adults and is also deemed to be the most exciting games. The more famous and prestigious matches attract up to 100,000 people and more besides the millions who are glued to their television sets. It is one of the most popular games in the world. There are different forms of football which can be known in history, normally prevalent as the peasant games. Modern ciphers of football can be traced back to the nineteenth century when the systemization of games happened at English public schools. Football spread outside the boundaries of Britain as the British Empire expanded their area of rule. By the end of 19th century the distinctive regional code were emergent: for instance Gaelic football intentionally integrated the rules of local traditional football games to uphold their heritage. The Football League was founded in England in 1888, which was also the first of many professional football competitions. By 20th century many football associations were formed and became some of the most popular team sports of the world.

      Introduction

      It might sound surprising, but football has a long an fascinating history, according to sources it has been found that the sport was first introduced in 1170 in an account which describes a group of youngsters going to play the ‘game of ball’. Traits of the game can be tracked back to China in second and third century BC. Records taken from the military books describe the Chinese playing a game which was an exercise known as Tsu’Chu where the players used a

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