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Friday 21 August 2015

The Origin.

Football or soccer is known as the most popular games in the world compared to any other sport such as rugby, cricket and basketball. It is a game where two teams consist of twenty- two players in a field , chasing around, kicking the balls with one aim which is to score the goal.

 The early history of football recorded it has been played around since 4,500 years ago. In modern day football, it all started in 1863 where 12 clubs around England met to discuss the rules and regulation for the game and they later on formed the very first governing body which is Football Association or FA, the same organization who still organise The FA Cup in England until today. 

However, the world current governing body, FIFA only founded in 21st May 1904. Meanwhile, the world famous World Cup wasn't held till 1930 in Uruguay.

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