Football game history |History of football

            The origin of football can be found in every corner of geography and history. The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking, and many more played a ball game long before our era.
The Chinese played "football" games date as far back as 3000 years ago. The Ancient Greeks and the Roman used football games to sharpen warriors for battle. In South and Central America a game called "Tlatchi" once flourished
          As we go forward on the history of football timeline, we notice that the game has gradually entered European territory, Europe being the place where modern day soccer will start in several centuries. Middle age soccer is covered in a combination of myth and historical facts. One popular form of the game (Mob soccer) involved entire villages or towns and was rather chaotic.
        FIFA formed as early as May 21, 1904 in Paris, but no national competition except for Olympics.As the highest football authority, FIFA made its claim as the organizers of the competition
1920’s – French football administrators, including Jules Rimet, are credited with bringing together the world’s strongest national teams to compete for a world championship of football.
             Decided that 1930 would be the first international competition for the was being called the “World Cup” and “La Coupe de Monde”.Much debate as to who would host first World Cup
FIFA felt it necessary for the first host nation to pay for travel expenses of all referees and national teams;  a clearly expensive proposition, but many European and South American nations showed interest; the likes of football powerhouses: Italy, Spain, Holland, Hungary, Sweden and Uruguay

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