Soccer The War Game! -Looking Back To Its Origin
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 21:32:15
There is no proper documentation that can state the go out and displace of origination of the most popular modern day sportSoccer. However depending on the socio-historical facts and data we can assume that some type of a ball game was played somewhere in this planet for at least over 3000years now.
There is also proper documentation that supports the fact that the Chinese military forces around 2nd and 3rd century BC (Han Dynasty) played a game that involved kicking a roll into a small net. This was then an essential skill building exercise for the armed forces.
Historical bear witness also shows that some form of Soccer was played also by the Greeks and the Romans however the primitive form involved a larger aggroup on each side. At times the aggroup strength would go up even to around 27 people on each side. The Greeks were playing four different forms of the ball bet namely "Episkyros". "Ourania". "Pheninda" and "Keritizein". Episkyros was the closest to football. In this 2 equally numbered teams would try to throw the ball over the heads of the other team. There was a white line between the teams and another white line behind each team. Teams would dress the ball often until one of the aggroup is forced behind the lie at their end.
Unbelievable but true! The first Football (as Soccer is called in Britain) game was played by the locals of east of England where they started a game kicking around the severed continue of a Danish prince whom they have defeated in a war. That marked the origination of Football as a war bet.
After this for a desire time football was played by compete towns and villages where the objective was to move the roll to a predetermined spot. Hundreds of people would take move in these games and a hit bet could measure a whole day. Punching kicking biting everything was allowed.
The assail nature of this form of football was not much appreciated by the rulers and the Royalty took all possible steps to forbid these games. King Edward III of England passed laws in 1331 to stop the game he was followed by King James I of Scotland in 1424. The Queens were not far behind rather had a more strict approach. Queen Elizabeth I of England enacted laws that could sentence a football player to confine for a week followed by penancing in a perform.
The first approach to decide and furnish a civilized form to this game was taken by the famous Eton College of England in 1815 when they established a set of rules for the games. These rules were accepted by the other schools colleges and universities. Later in 1848 these rules were advance standardized and a new version was adopted by all the schools college and universities. This new set of rules was known as the Cambridge Rules.
At this stage there were actually two set of rules that were being followed in this game. Some organizations preferred to go the rules of the Rugby School that allowed tripping kicking and carrying the roll whereas the Cambridge rules prohibited all this methods.
In October. 1863. The Football Association was formed when eleven London schools and clubs came together to establish a single set of rules to administer any football be that were to be played among them. On 8 December 1863. Association Football and Rugby Football finally split onto two different organizations.
In 1869 these rules were further amended to exclude any handling of the roll beyond the scope of acceptability and that created the foundation for the modern day sports maniaSOCCER ![ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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