FOOTBALL

Football (or soccer in other countries) has a long and distinguished history. Football as we know it now began in the mid-nineteenth century in England. Alternative versions of the game, on the other hand, have been chronicled in football history for a long time.

Around 3,000 years ago, the first documented evidence of a team game with a rock-made ball was unearthed in ancient Mesoamerican communities. Despite the fact that there were several varieties of the game dispersed across broad territories, the Aztecs established it and named it Tchatali. The ball would represent the sun in other rites, and the losing team's captain would be sacrificed to the gods.

Cuju, the original arguing ball game, was popular in China during the third and alternate centuries BC. Cuju was played with a globular ball on a square ( sutured leather with fur or feathers outside). Later, in Japan, a modified version of this game was known as kemari and was used in traditional forms.

Marn Gook, a remonstrating-based ball game popular among Aboriginal Australians and demonstrated by European settlers in the 1800s, was most likely an old cuju. The ball was made from boxed leaves or roots. The rules are a little hazy, but keeping the ball in the air was clearly important, as it was in numerous other early performances of the game.

Other types of ball games date back to Ancient Greece. Shreds of leather were used to make the ball, which was filled with hair (the first documents of balls filled with air are from the 7th century). Ball games, on the other hand, were considered low-status and were not included in the Panhellenic Games. Games with balls were not part of the entertainment in Ancient Rome's large arenas (amphitheatres), but were part of military training known as Harpastum. Football was brought to the British Isles by the Roman culture (Britannica). However, it is unclear to what extent the British people were inspired by this type and to what extent they produced their own variations.

Another significant gap between the English and Scottish teams may be seen at this level. The Scottish preferred to pass the ball amongst their players, whilst the English preferred to run forward with the ball in a rugby-like method. It wasn't long before the Scottish method took hold.

Originally, the sport served as a source of entertainment for the British working class. In the late 1800s, large crowds of up to 30,000 people would attend major sporting events. British people travelling to other regions of the world would soon expand the game. Football would generate a lot of interest, especially in South America and India.