Although it may be that it is impossible exactly when and where football originated, history shows us glimpses of a game, similar to what the current version has played more than 3,000 years ago.
About the third or second century, it has been documented that the Chinese military during the Han Dynasty played a game involving kicking a ball into a net.
The game is similar to soccer was played by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but the game includes up to 27 players on a page as today's game 11 players a side.
football has become the most popular sport of the masses due to its popularity as a war game. The game of "football", which the British called it, played in eastern England in the eighth century, when the head of a vanquished Danish prince used to.
During the Middle Ages, villages and towns were pitted against each other in battles that can take all day. It was not structured to comply with the rules and kicking, biting, gouging and punching turned the game into a virtual battle for survival. These games are so violent that part of the British authorities have attempted to soccer banned.
King Edward III of England laws 1331- to abolish the game and a week-long prison sentence prescribed by the laws of Queen Elizabeth I has been approved for anyone caught , to play football.
Despite these efforts, the football became so popular in England in the next few centuries, it has emerged as the most popular sport of the time.
At this point, the only shortcoming was the lack of sports regulations or standards. a set of rules set up in 1815, Eton College, the famous English school should be implemented in other schools, colleges and universities.
The standardized version of these rules to be adopted later in 1848, the majority of England & # 39; s colleges and universities, which were known as the Cambridge Rules.
Unfortunately, at this point, there are still two different rules are applied. Some college favored the Rugby rules that allowed carrying the ball in his hands, tripping and kicking legs. which are contrary to the Cambridge Rules.
In 1863, the Football Association has created eleven English football clubs and schools to implement a single set of rules when they played against each other.
The supporters of Rugby School rules criticized the changes, and the two groups are distributed. The Football Association subsequently changed the rules in 1869, which banned the hands, other than the goalkeeper, which led us to the game of football as we know it today.
The English still called the game "football" because the ball is played mainly on the feet, but at the end of the 18th century, the word "football" was first used by a student of the University of Oxford in the name Charles Wreford Brown. Students were known slang in Oxford, where the added "er" to the end of the word to deliberately shortened. The game of Rugby was called "rugby". Brown shorten the "alliance" and added: "er" and "football" was born.
since the 19th century, the game evolved to where it is today. The World & # 39; game that is played more than any other sport and recognized the most popular game in the sport's history.
The World Cup, which is held every four years, to crown a world champion draws millions of viewers in 32 games played and watching billions of fans around the world, thanks to today's satellite TV technology.
The popularity of football continues to grow in organized youth football programs will participate age of a young fan base, which is the fuel for growth in the coming years.