History
Soccer, outdoor ball and goal game, also called association football or simply football. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in Europe and the Americas. It has a vivid and interesting history in the world of sports. Early evidence of soccer was china; China was the first country to create a game named cuju. Cuju is simply translated as kick ball . Even though china had invented a lot of thing first the emergence of settled spontaneous play could be organized into the rule bound contests. The claim however were an attempt to give historical foundation to mythology, relying on legendary epics written just before the emergence of the great Han dynasty in the second century BCE. It seem likely that cuju, although played in the area of the Warring State in the third and and fourth centuries BCE. Between 1840 and the mid-1870s football had made the journey from a dying folk ritual and the scorned pastime of urchins and urban undesirables to the formalized if eccentric hobby of overgrown, aristocratic schoolboys.in the early twentieth century industrialization would spawn the same connection in much of Europe and Latin America. First and foremost, real wages finally began to rise. The industrialization of transport technology and infrastructure underwrote the increasing size of crowds and the enlarged geographical scope of leagues and the cup competitions. There were many others religions that that create a similar game of soccer like the Indians. The Indians played a game called pasuckuakohowog, which means “ they gather to play ball with the foot.” they played in the beaches a half a mile wide with goals one mile apart. 1000 people played at a time. Game were often rough, resulting broken bones, but no one could be identified because players disguised themselves with ornament and war paint, making retaliation close impossible. The geographical spread of ball game was matched by its social depth. Form its inception the game was entwined with other features of Mesoamerica life. The sheer number of courts and ubiquity of objects indicated that the game was played informally by commoners as well as ritual by the elite. Aztec and Mayans records even point to the emergence of highly skilled players from the lower classes competing with nobles. The meaning of the Aztec game was xolotl who appeared in the night sky as Venus, and players appear In murals as representative of other cosmic bodies.
- The first set of rules for soccer were made by the London Football Association in 1863.
- Soccer became a major sport in England and Scotland in 1872.
- The idea of professionalism was introduced in 1885.
- The first full time league was made in 1888.
- In 1908 soccer came into the Olympic games.
- In 1930 there was success in the World Cup. they classified the first one.