Football and its Origin
Posted on May 11, 2007
Filed Under Football, Sport Facts
I know you are a great fan of soccer but just wondering if you people know some basic ideas about when did the soccer origin and from where.Here I just want to share some thoughts.Well,expert trace back the origin of the game to 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in china.Also they have the views that the old Roman games Harpastum is very much resemble to the soccer and may be distant ancester of football.In Medival period,different types of football were played in Europe.It is after this Europe era of football that experts assume the origin a todays soccer.
In sixteen century,it was the the English Public School,that shaped the modern football and generally the headmaster Richard Mulcaster who turned the violent idea of football into more organized team sport that was beneficial to schoolboys.After this the game became more traditional,institutionalised,regulated and marked the beginning of modern football.On the mid-19th century many football enthusiasts tried to make many rules to become more and more organize and todays rules are the modification of the many rules that were decided by English Public School.The first rule were written in Eton College in the year 1815 after that the Cambridge rules at Cambridge University in 1848.The football enter many stages and made many rules to come to the present soccer.
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