HISTORY OF FOOTBALL.

We all know many kinds of sports. Some people were taught how to play different type of sports during their early age. One of the sports is football. It is a very well-known sport. Football is also known as ‘soccer’ in the United States of America. Nearly all the males in the world play the game of football and if not, they just have a huge interest in football but do they actually know the history of the game of football and how it was first established?
It is widely accepted that both the Romans and the Greeks started the sport of football which tells us that its origins are believed to lie in ancient times. During the Roman Empire, football wasn’t involved in the ancient Olympic due to the fact that football that time was just a test of bravery to the Roman Army as actions such as punching, hacking and generally assaulting the opponent were highly accepted as part of the game. Football during that time appears to have resembled rugby.
Football was also mentioned in a compiled documents found in China which was from the 1st century BC. It describes a practice called cuju which means “kicking ball” in Chinese. Cuju was originally involved kicking a leather ball into a mini hole hung 9 meters above ground with the help of bamboo sticks. Rules were established then on the 2nd century BC and eventually, the game of of cuju spread to Japan as well as to Korea and the name of the sport has changed to Kemari respectively. However the sport appears to have died out sometime before the 19th century.
There are also indications that the game existed in Britain in the 12th century. Here the game was a crude street game. The ball would be kicked and chased by groups of youngsters egged on by their parents. This form of the game often involved two hundred or more participants which are all male. This type of football was entirely based within rural communities, and was often played on important days of the year such as Shrove Tuesday and local festival days. Sport of all kinds, particularly football, were essentially local rather than national. It was often played to rules set by local participants.
In this historic way, the game of football moved from the rural areas of Britain to the entire world. Sometime around 1050, Englishmen dug up a skull of a Dane and started to kick it around in frustration toward the Dane. It became known as "Kicking the Dane's head" .The skull began to hurt one of Englishmen. They then came up with the idea of using an inflated cow bladder to help their feet.
Britain was responsible for the formation of a game that spanned and engaged many countries, helping to provide a worldwide understanding. Britain’s influence can still be seen today, in the names of many of the world’s greatest club sides. Inter Milan, an Italian team, still use the British way of spelling the name of their city, since it was originated by Englishmen. Britain might no longer rule the game, but the rest of the world owes much to the vision of those instigators and inventors, so many years ago.