The History of Football

Please watch: "Nikola Tesla | The Untold Story | The Open Book" Football Football (or soccer as the game is called in some parts of the world) has a long history. Football in its current form arose in England in the middle of the 19th Century. But alternative versions of the game existed much earlier and are a part of the football history. The game dates back to the Mesoamerican culture played with a rock some 3000 years ago followed with Cuju where a ball was used for kicking in China. Various forms of the game were played in various countries but the present form of the game developed in England in the 12 th century. . In this century games that resembled football were played on meadows and roads in England. Besides from kicks, the game involved also punches of the ball with the fist. This early form of football was also much rougher and more violent than the modern way of playing. An important feature of the forerunners to football was that the games involved plenty of people and took place over large areas in towns (an equivalent was played in Florence from the 16th Century where it was called Calcio). The rampage of these games would cause damage on the town and even death. These would be among the reasons for the proclamations against the game that finally was forbidden for several centuries. It took, however, long time until the features of today’s football had been taken into practice. For a long time there was no clear distinction between football and rugby.