Football Overview
The word football includes many types of sports as including American football, Australian Rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league, rugby union and other related games. In1586 men from a ship commanded by an English voyager named John Davis went to play a game which was a form of football go to ashore. Football league founded in England first which become first of many football professional competitions. In 18th and 19th century football game can trace England high school. In 1861 the Royal Caledonian Society of Melbourne donated the first football trophy tournament. It was the Caledonian Challenge Cup. In all these the most popular and well known sport is called soccer or just football. There are many references to traditional ancient ball games, played by indigenous peoples in different parts of the world. In 1867 the oldest surviving soccer trophy is the Youdan Cup and 1 in 1871 the oldest national soccer competition is the English FA Cup.
On March 1870 the first international football match played between England and Scotland. The football has been included in every Olympiad excluding 1896 and 1932 as a men's competition sport. For women's football officially include in 1996. Soccer was not including in the programmed at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, since international soccer was in its immaturity form at the time. But a few sources claim that soccer tournament was organized unofficially in which an Athens XI lost to a team for Smyrna then part of the Ottoman Empire. Smyrna wins by15-0 from team of Denmark. At all no one can say surely that any competition organized. At the last of 19th century separate local area's code were developed and intentionally included the rules of local traditional football games for the purpose to maintain their heritage. In the 20th century different codes become popular among the world of sports. In very old period the Greeks and Romans well known to have played many sports with ball in that foot were also involves. At the 1900 and 1904 Tournaments were played but these were competition by different clubs and scratch teams.
Although the IOC considers official Olympic events the 1900 and 1904 tournaments but they are not recognized by FIFA and are not known as the Intercalated Games today.in1906 an unofficial competition organized n which participated teams of Great Britain, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands. Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held in London, from 25 July to 11 August. The finals will be played at Wembley Stadium. Football preliminaries will actually begin two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games on 27 July. The draw for the tournament will takes place on 24 April 2012.
On March 1870 the first international football match played between England and Scotland. The football has been included in every Olympiad excluding 1896 and 1932 as a men's competition sport. For women's football officially include in 1996. Soccer was not including in the programmed at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, since international soccer was in its immaturity form at the time. But a few sources claim that soccer tournament was organized unofficially in which an Athens XI lost to a team for Smyrna then part of the Ottoman Empire. Smyrna wins by15-0 from team of Denmark. At all no one can say surely that any competition organized. At the last of 19th century separate local area's code were developed and intentionally included the rules of local traditional football games for the purpose to maintain their heritage. In the 20th century different codes become popular among the world of sports. In very old period the Greeks and Romans well known to have played many sports with ball in that foot were also involves. At the 1900 and 1904 Tournaments were played but these were competition by different clubs and scratch teams.
Although the IOC considers official Olympic events the 1900 and 1904 tournaments but they are not recognized by FIFA and are not known as the Intercalated Games today.in1906 an unofficial competition organized n which participated teams of Great Britain, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands. Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held in London, from 25 July to 11 August. The finals will be played at Wembley Stadium. Football preliminaries will actually begin two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games on 27 July. The draw for the tournament will takes place on 24 April 2012.