History of Soccer

History
The history of association football, simply known as football, is usually considered to start
from 1863, the year of the founding of The Football Association, although its origins, like those of the
other football codes can be traced back several centuries in the past, particularly in the
British Isles during the Middle Ages. While there are common points among different
ball games that developed since the 3rd century BC and modern football, the sport as it is
it is known today has its origins in the British Isles.

The first British codes that gave rise to association football were characterized by their
little organization and extreme violence. However, there are also other codes less
violent and better organized: perhaps one of the most known was the Florentine calcio, a sport of
very popular team in Italy that had an impact on the codes of some British schools. The
The definitive formation of association football had its climax during the 19th century.
In 1848, representatives from different English colleges gathered at the University of Cambridge.
to create the Cambridge code, which would serve as a basis for the creation of the regulations of
modern football. Finally, in 1863 in London, the first rules of football were officially established.
association.

Since then, football has had a steady growth, until it became the most popular sport.
popular in the world with about 270 million people involved. With the realization of the
first meeting of the International Football Association Board in 1886 and the founding of FIFA
In 1904, the sport had expanded to reach every corner of the world. Starting from 1930
the Football World Cup would begin to be contested, which would become the sports event with
largest audience on the planet.

During the 16th century, the variants of carnival football, characterized until now by their
violence, disorganization, and constant prohibitions due to the aforementioned points,
they began to be part of the recreational and physical education activities for students of the
different private schools in the British Isles, known there as public schools,
being supervised and regulated by the school authorities.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, various schools began to formalize their rule-based games. The
Rugby schools, Marlborough and Cheltenham developed games where the use of
the feet and the hands; Shrewsbury and Winchester favored the use of the feet for kicking and moving.
the ball (to dribble); Charterhouse played its matches in the cloisters of the monasteries;
Eton and Harrow introduced the dispute of matches in large outdoor grounds, which
It encouraged launching the ball over great distances using the feet; Westminster
(Cambridge) used a rougher game, where tackles were allowed. In 1848 several of these
schools gathered at the University of Cambridge to unify their codes and create a game
of standard rules: the Cambridge Rules.
In the first half of the 19th century, the first rules of offside were regulated. They
They could appreciate different varieties of laws, many of which have evolved into rules.
current offside rules from various football codes.

Of the different school codes, currently only three schools continue to compete in matches.
in a regular form with those rules: Eton, Harrow, and Winchester. Eton has two variants: the game
of the field, very similar to current football although with aspects of rugby such as scrums and tries.
and the wall game, a sport played in a long and very narrow field with a wall
next to him and whose objective is to take the ball to the opposite end. Football in Harrow is played
mainly with the feet, although the hands can be used to stop the ball or to
push an opponent, and the goal is to get the ball between two vertical posts
located at the ends of the land. The game of Winchester is played on a field of 73 by
24.5 meters, which has nets on its sides to prevent the ball from leaving the field.
It combines aspects of football and rugby, and has as its main characteristic that a player of a
The team cannot touch the ball after it has been touched by a teammate.

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF FOOTBALL

The second half of the 20th century would be the period of greatest growth for football. Football
South American was already organized since 1916, the year the Confederation was founded.
South American Football, but the sport in other areas began to group together in the 1950s.
and 60. In 1954, European and Asian football would be organized in UEFA and the Asian Confederation of
Football respectively. In Europe, clubs with larger budgets are consolidating, founded
mostly in the late 19th century, but reaching great heights of success in the second half
from the 20th century. Among them stands out the Spanish club Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, declared by FIFA
Best Club in the World in the 20th century. The African Football Confederation would be founded in Africa.
1957; in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean, Concacaf in 1961; and lastly in Oceania,
Oceania Football Confederation in 1966. These organizations would affiliate with FIFA under the
number of confederations.

In parallel with the creation of the new confederations, disputes began to take place over the
first regional selection tournaments, except for the South American Confederation of
Football, which had already been holding its South American Championship for national teams since 1916. In 1956 the

The Asian Football Confederation held the first edition of the Asian Cup, and the following year
the African Football Confederation organized the Africa Cup of Nations. In 1960, it was created
Eurocup, which gathers the national teams of UEFA. For its part, Concacaf would compete for
the first time the CONCACAF Cup in 1963, which would later be replaced by the Gold Cup. The
The Oceania Football Confederation would be the last to create its own tournament, the Cup of the
OFC nations, held for the first time in 1973.
Due to the creation of the confederations, the first championships began to be contested.
international at the club level, with the first being the UEFA Champions League,
that would bring together the different champions of the major leagues of the UEFA countries starting from
1955. Five years later, the Copa Libertadores de América would begin, the main event for
clubs affiliated with CONMEBOL, which was held for the first time in 1960. That same year,
would dispute the first edition of the Intercontinental Cup, which brought together the champions of both
tournaments. This tournament would be replaced in 2005 by the FIFA Club World Cup, which
In addition, I would receive the champions from the other confederations.

Meanwhile, the Football World Cup has established itself as the largest sporting event.
importance worldwide, even surpassing the audience of the Olympic Games themselves.

Development in the world

Popularity
According to a survey conducted by FIFA in 2006, approximately 270 million
people in the world are actively involved in football, including football players,
referees and managers. Of these, 265 million play football regularly on a professional basis,
semi-professional or amateur, considering both men, women, youth, and children. This figure
represents about 4% of the world's population. The confederation with the highest percentage of
actively involved people with football is Concacaf, with 8.53% of the population. Its
the counterpart occurs in the AFC zone, where the percentage is only 2.22%. UEFA has a
participation percentage of 7.59%; CONMEBOL of 7.47%; OFC of 4.68%; and the
African Football Confederation of 5.16%. There are more than 1.7 million teams in the world.
and approximately 301,000 clubs.

The country with the most footballers playing regularly (except for children) is China, which has
26.1 million soccer players. Other countries that follow are: United States (24.4 million), India
(20.5), Germany (16.3), Brazil (13.1), and Mexico (8.4). On the other hand, the Federations with the lowest
the number of regular football players (except for children) is Montserrat, with barely 300 football players,
British Virgin Islands (658), Anguilla (760) and the Turks and Caicos Islands (950).

Women's football
A women's football match.

Women's football has seen slow growth in modern football, mainly due to
social and cultural obstacles that prevent women's full participation in sports.
first women's match under the rules of association football of which there are records
it happened in 1892 in Glasgow, Scotland. By the end of 1921, women's football was banned in
England, a fact that did not allow it to expand to the rest of the world. In 1969, women's football ...
it was reorganized in England, which motivated it to begin expanding outside its territory. The
the first international women's football teams meeting occurred in 1972, coincidentally.
100 years after the first men's meeting, where England defeated Scotland 3 to 2.
The first world tournaments began to be held in the 1990s: the World Cup
Women's Football since 1991 and as an Olympic sport since 1996.

According to a survey conducted by FIFA, there are around 26 million female players in the
world. On average, for every 10 football players (of both sexes) there is one female football player in the
world.

Economy
The official sponsors of the 2006 World Cup produce one of the largest
revenues for FIFA.

Customized objects like this ball from Brazil are clear examples of merchandising.

According to FIFA estimates, during the period 2003-2006, the organization had revenues of
3.238 million Swiss francs (CHF) and expenses of 2.422 million CHF, which amounts to a
surplus of 816 million CHF. 92% (2.986 million CHF) of the income is
related to international competitions, particularly the broadcasting by
television of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, which includes 1.66 billion CHF of that
value. The rest of the income is divided equally between financial income and others.
operating income. Of the total income, 714 million CHF is obtained from this concept.
of merchandising rights. Many of these revenues occur at points of sale in the
surroundings of the World Cup stadiums. In terms of expenses, 69% (1,682
millions of CHF) of these are dedicated to the organization of championships and development
of the sport: 46% of total expenses (1.125 billion CHF) and 23% (557 million CHF)
respectively. 26% (622 million CHF) was allocated to operating expenses, such as
transportation, rentals, legal expenses, communications, among others. The other 5% (118 million of
CHF) runs due to the effects of exchange rates and interest.

The budgets of football clubs can be found at different values depending on

Football also plays a supportive role. One of FIFA's main contributions to development
of sports in areas where this is made difficult due to a lack of materials and development techniques is the
Goal Program. On the other hand, FIFA has been working with UNICEF since 1999, providing material for
work related to football for it to be distributed by this organization of the Nations
United. Friendly matches are regularly held around the world for purposes
beneficial, whose promoters are usually stars of world football.

A transfer is understood as the passing of a football player from one club to another in exchange for
an economic sum that the club paying for the player pays to the club that releases him. Some of these
Signings can reach very high prices. Below are highlighted the ten most expensive signings.
from the history of football.