soccer, the most widely played team game in the world and also the most popular spectator sport has been played on the planet for over 3000 years. The derivation of soccer is found in every turn of geography and history. The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking, and many more played a ball game long before our era. According to a Chinese text of 50 B.C. kept in The Munich Ethnological Museum, a similar game to soccer was played between teams from China and Japan. The earliest evidence of soccer revealed that a skill building exercise was used by the Chinese Military in between 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in which they kicked a ball into a small net.
It is England, where the modern-outgrowth of soccer has started. England is also the founder country of first Football Association. But before that several times in between 1300 to 1450, Soccer faced the threatening of Laws to be banned by the King Edward III and Queen Elizabeth 1 of England for its excessive violence. The first Football Association was created on 26 October 1863 in a meeting represented by eleven London clubs and schools in the Freemason's Tavern. In this meeting a set of fundamental rules was establish to govern the matches played amongst them. In 1869, the association included a rule which forbade the carrying of ball by hand and on this foundation the modern soccer stands. The first football competition in the world - the FA Cup was started in 1871. The first international football match was played between England and Scotland in Glasgow on 30 November 1872. After the English Football Association, The Scottish FA (1873), the FA of Wales (1875) and the Irish FA (1880) are the next oldest football association. Since then the spread of soccer got momentum and so many countries like Netherlands, Denmark, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Uruguay, Hungary and Finland form their football associations. Soccer's governing body, the Federation International Football Association (FIFA) was founded by its seven founder members: France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland in Paris in May 1904. Presently FIFA has 208 members associations and the head quarter of FIFA is in Zurich.
13 July 1930 is the historic day for Soccer as the first World Cup Football was started on this day in Uruguay. 13 countries took place on this World Cup and the host Uruguay clinched the title. The tournament is being organized once in every four years. But due to Second World War the tournament could not take place in 1942 and in 1946.The first women's World Cup match was played in 1971 in Mexico City. The 19th FIFA World Cup Football will be held in South Africa. It is scheduled to take place from 11 June to 11 July 2010. 32 countries will take part in the tournament to be the next World Champion of Football.
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