Welcome to TSE: FIFA/UEFA ( Football/Soccer )
Well...soccer/football goes as far
back as any sport possibly could...probably all the way back to
pre-modern man...so...we won't even bother concerning ourselves with
the ' roots ' of soccer/football. Instead, we'll start at when modern
soccer/football came about.
Modern soccer/football can be said to have started when they outlawed handling the ball...which was in 1869. The first ' International Game ' was held in 1872 between England and Scotland.
Pele Franz Beckenbauer Garrincha Marco Van Basten
Modern soccer/football can be said to have started when they outlawed handling the ball...which was in 1869. The first ' International Game ' was held in 1872 between England and Scotland.
Pele Franz Beckenbauer Garrincha Marco Van Basten
Britian was, without a doubt, the
birthplace of modern soccer/football...from there it slowly spread, and
football/soccer associations sprang up in the Netherlands and Denmark
in 1889, New Zealand in 1891, Argentina in 1893, Chile, Switzerland,
and Belguim in 1895, Italy in 1898, Germany and Uruguay in 1900,
Hungary in 1901, and Finland in 1907. France had it's first Club
founded in 1872 but never played an International match until 1904
against Belguim. The same year the FIFA was founded in Paris with seven
founding members ( France, Belgium,
Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain , Sweden and Switzerland ). By the time
of the first World Cup in 1930 there were 41 national associations
affiliated with the FIFA.
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