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STORY AND ORIGIN OF FOOTBALL

It's difficult to know precisely the most origin of the football, Different things suggest that in China the first game resembling the football appeared 2000 years before Jesus Christ. We can speak in particular of the Emperor Huang-Ti, who had the idea, to keep his men in good physical shape, to make them play sports: he therefore invented and created a game where the goal was to pass a leather ball between two posts topped with a silk thread. During the same period, still in China, the Cuju saw the day, he is often considered the oldest ancestor of soccer. It was played with two teams of twelve players, without the hands, and the goals were suspended 30 or 40 cm above the ground.

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DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN FOOTBALL

The rules of football as we know them today were invented in 1848 by the student at Cambridge College in England. Then in 1863 the first football federation was established in England to manage the practice of this sport in the country. Then the development of thisgreat team sport has experienced a long progression, in 1885 professionalism was accepted in Great Britain. While clubs are being created in the world, especially in Europe and South America, the FIFA (International Football Federation Association) was founded in 1904 in Paris by 7 European countries. Supported by the success in football tournaments in the Olympic Games, FIFA is organizing the first championships of the world in 1930. This competition will become one of the biggest sporting events in the world.