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History of Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve kicking a ball to score a goal. The earliest evidence of football-like games dates back to 2nd-3rd century BC China, where a military manual described a game called cuju. Cuju later developed into different variations across Asia, including kemari in ancient Japan. Various forms of football later evolved and spread throughout Europe, South America, North America, Australia and elsewhere, with the modern sports association football, American football, Australian rules football, rugby football and Gaelic football being the most popular and organized versions today.

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History of Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve kicking a ball to score a goal. The earliest evidence of football-like games dates back to 2nd-3rd century BC China, where a military manual described a game called cuju. Cuju later developed into different variations across Asia, including kemari in ancient Japan. Various forms of football later evolved and spread throughout Europe, South America, North America, Australia and elsewhere, with the modern sports association football, American football, Australian rules football, rugby football and Gaelic football being the most popular and organized versions today.

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The History of Football

Football is a family of team sports that


involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to
score a goal. Unqualified, the word football
normally means the form of football that is
the most popular where the word is used.
Sports commonly called football include
association football (known as soccer in
some countries); gridiron football
(specifically American football or Canadian
football); Australian rules football; rugby
football (either rugby league or rugby union);
and Gaelic football. These various forms of
football are known as football codes.
The Chinese competitive game cuju ( 蹴鞠 ), as stated
by FIFA, is the earliest form of football for which
there is scientific evidence and appears in a military
manual dated to the second and third centuries BC. It
existed during the Han dynasty and possibly the Qin
dynasty, in the second and third centuries BC. The
Japanese version of cuju is kemari and was developed
during the Asuka period. This is known to have been
played within the Japanese imperial court in Kyoto
from about 600 AD. In kemari several people stand in
a circle and kick a ball to each other, trying not to let
the ball drop to the ground (much like keepie uppie).
A Song dynasty
Paint of a Mesoamerican
Ancient Greek athlete painting by Su
ballgame player of the
balancing a ball on his Hanchen (c. 1130-
Tepantitla murals in
thigh, Piraeus, 400-375 1160), depicting
Teotihuacan
BC Chinese children
playing cuju
A group of aborigines An illustration from the A revived version of
playing a ball game in 1850s of Australian kemari being played at
Guiana Aboriginal hunter the Tanzan Shrine,
gatherers Japan, 2006
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