HISTORY OF FOOTBALL :The world's most popular game is football.It began in 1863 in England when rugby football and association football branched off on different courses.At the same time the Football Association in England was formed.The association became the first sport's governing body.This game was origined from a common root but became a large tree with a very short time.People around the world have enjoed kicking a ball for thousands of years and there was obviously no reason to consider it.It was a natural form of playing a ball with hands. On the otherhand,apart from the need to employ the legs and feets in tough tussles for the ball,often without any laws for protection,it was recognised right at the outset .The art of controling the ball with the feet was not easy.So it required no small measure of skill.The primary form of the game was an exercise from a military manual dating back to the second and third centuries BC in China. The first Han Dynasty forebear of football was called Tsu' Chu. At first the ball was consisted with feathers and hair measuring only 30-40cm in width into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes.According to one variation of this exercise the player had to use his feet,chest,back and shoulders when trying to make attacks to the opponents.Use of hands was not permitted.
Another form of the game,also originating from the Far East,was the Japaness Kemari,which began some 500-600 years later and is still played today.This is a game lacking the competitive element of Tsu' Chu with no struggle for possession.The players had to passthe ball to each other,in a relatively small space,trying not to let it touch the ground.
The Greek 'Episkyros'-of which few concrete details survive-was much livelier,as was the Roman'Harpastum.The latter was played out with a smaller ball by two teams on a rectangular field marked by boundary line and a centre line.The objective was to get the ball over the opponents boundary lines and as players passed it between thenselves.The game remained popular for 700-800 years,but,although the Romans took it to Britain with them,the use of feet was so small as to scarcely be of consequence. Now the popularity of football has spread all over the world.People of all ages and classes enjoy it very much.Today it becomes a great source of entertainment.
Another form of the game,also originating from the Far East,was the Japaness Kemari,which began some 500-600 years later and is still played today.This is a game lacking the competitive element of Tsu' Chu with no struggle for possession.The players had to passthe ball to each other,in a relatively small space,trying not to let it touch the ground.
The Greek 'Episkyros'-of which few concrete details survive-was much livelier,as was the Roman'Harpastum.The latter was played out with a smaller ball by two teams on a rectangular field marked by boundary line and a centre line.The objective was to get the ball over the opponents boundary lines and as players passed it between thenselves.The game remained popular for 700-800 years,but,although the Romans took it to Britain with them,the use of feet was so small as to scarcely be of consequence. Now the popularity of football has spread all over the world.People of all ages and classes enjoy it very much.Today it becomes a great source of entertainment.
