Football or soccer as the game is called in some part of the world has a long history.
Football in its current form arose in England in the middle of the 19th centuary.
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But alternative versions of the game existed much earlier and are a part of a football history.
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in the 3rd and 2nd centuary BC under the name Cuju. Cuju was played
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practiced under ceremonial forms.
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The first ball game which also involved kicking also took place in China
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with a round ball on a area of a square. It later spread to Japan and was
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years later.
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Throughout history, humans have enjoyed kicking a ball or something like a ball.
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South American Indians were known to use a light elasticized ball.
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However; rubber was not partically manufactured until a few thousand
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According to the historical references and legend, early balls ranged from human heads,
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stitched up cloth, animal and human skulls to pigs or cows bladders.
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'tsu chu', in witch animal- skin balls were dribbled through gaps in a net
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During the Ts'in and Han Dynasties (255BC-220AC), the shinese played
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stretched between two poles. Certain ancient Egyptian rites are said
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by historians to have similarities with Football, and both the ancient
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kicking a ball
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Greek and Romans also played a game that entailed carrying and
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According to pre-medieval legend, an entire village would kick a skull
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along to a nearby village square. The opposing village would in turn
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attempt to kick the skull to the first village's square. Wow, that probably
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caused more ratios then in modern soccer game.
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Prior to this, balls were dependant on the size and the shape of the pigs
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of the ball was when kicked. However; it would not be until the twentieth
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bladder. The more irregular the bladder, the more unpredictable the behevior
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In 1885, Charles Goodyear designed and build the first vulcanized rubber
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century until the most balls were made with bladders.
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Soccer balls (footballs ). The following pictures shows the Charles
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Goodyear ball that is display at the National Soccer Hall Of Fame
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which is located Oneonta, NY, USA.
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In 1863 the newly formed English Football
Association met to hammer out the
laws of the game. No description of the ball was
offered in the first set of rules.
When the rules were revised
in 1872 it was agreed that the ball “must be spherical with
a circumference of 27 to 28 inches” (68.6 cm to 71.1 cm).
That rule remains in today’s FIFA laws.
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Very little has ever been written about the ball,
probably because it has remained very much the same over the years.
The official size and weight of the ball was first fixed in 1872.
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It was changed ever so little in 1937 when the official weight was
increased from 13-15 oz to 14-16 oz.
The Encyclopedia of Association Football
(first published in England in 1956) says as follows “According to
the Laws of Football
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History of football stadiums
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Sport activities elicit fervent responses from people and the passion
of players matches the excitement of spectators and fans.
The global sporting industry is worth over $600 billion and with the
amount of money circulating, major sport arenas boast
impressive structures. Speaking of architecture some are more
remarkable than others. But, how did football stadiums look originally?
How did they evolve? Who are the individuals who changed the pitches
from the
set aside grass areas to properly maintained stadiums?
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The first stadiums
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When Association Football was in its starting phase, people
played their matches on spare playing fields, mostly within the public
parks. The biggest worry of players was whether passers
would understand
exactly what was happening and have the courage to walk around
the pitch.
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Initially, the markings you see on the local pitches were non-existent.
Football pitches featured bollard or fence along the field edges to help
players know where they could not go beyond and to keep the
spectators closer. In addition to that, the fields featured two sticks,
fundamentally, at each pitch end to represent the goals.
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It might seem strange to hear that football pitches were the suitable
looking grassy areas
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In most cases, it was the ideal section of the public park –
the straightest part. As the popularity of this game increased, teams
started using private land. For example, Preston North End moved in
1875 to Deepdale to play its matches on a ground that was formerly
a farm, and considering the initial state of the field, they encountered
numerous problems.