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Youths playing football in the days of hoje.Não is not free of controversy right assignment to a country or culture of the invention of football. It is known however that the first manifestations of so-called football (the English foot, foot, and ball, ball) emerged between 3000 and 2500 BC in China.

[Edit] The Tsu-ChuDurante the dynasty of the Chinese emperor Huang-ti, it was customary to kick the skulls of defeated enemies. The skulls, which were later to be replaced with leather balls, had to be kicked by Chinese soldiers for between two stakes driven into the ground at the first sign of beams. The sport was called tsu-chu, which in Chinese means (tsu) "a ball made of leather stuffed" (chu). The sport was created for military training purposes, on the Yangtze, a member of the guard of the Emperor, the Xia Dynasty in 2197 BC

[Edit] KemariSignificando 'kick the ball (k = kick mari = ball) is a variation of tsu-chu which originated in Japan Unlike the Chinese sports, women could not participate in kemari. And spread the emperors Engi and tender, and any bodily contact was forbidden. Field (Kakar) was square and each side was a tree: cherry (sakura), willow (yana-gi), maple (kaede) and pine (matsu). Players (Mariash, mari = ball and ashi = foot) had eight. This game was more a religious ritual than a sport itself, before beginning a celebration was held to bless the "ball" which symbolized the sun and was created with handmade bamboo.

[Edit] The first reference to EpyskirosA epyskiros Sphairomachia comes from the book of Homer, a Greek book only about sports with balls.

In it is quoted the epyskiros, a sport played with the feet in a rectangular field by two teams of nine players. The number of these, however, could change depending on the dimensions of the field. You could have up to 15 players on each side, as in the first century BC in Sparta. The ball was made of beef and bladder filled with air and sand, which should be thrown to the goals, the bottom of each side of the field.

[Edit] The sacrifices MaiasEntre the years 900 and 200 BC in the Yucatan Peninsula, present-day Mexico, the Maya practiced a game (pok ta pok) at the feet and hands. The goal was to lob the ball into a circular hole in the middle of six square slabs of stone. At the bottom there were two temples, where the master marksman (equivalent to the team captain) group loser was sacrificed.

[Edit] HarpastumDescendente epyskiros of the harpastum was a sport practiced by about 200 BC in the Roman Empire. The harpastum was played on a rectangular field, divided by a line and two lines as a goal. The ball, made of ox bladder, was called follis.

The harpastum was a military exercise, which made a game can last hours. With the Roman conquests, it was spread to other parts of Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa.

[Edit] SouleDurante the Middle Ages, the region where France is today, was created soule, a version of harpastum, introduced by the Romans between the years 58 and 51 BC. The rules of the soule varied from region to region. His name also, where it was called Choule in Picardy.

The soule was a royal sport, practiced by the aristocracy. King Henry II of France, banned the game because it was violent and noisy. Thus, created a law that decreed the prohibition of the sport, and those who practice it could go to prison.

[Edit] Calcio FiorentinoNão would the Italians call today football calcio. The sport was created in Florence, and therefore called calcio fiorentino. The only rules were established in 1580 by Giovanni di Bardi. The game came to be arbitrated by ten judges, and the ball could be fomented by the feet or hands, and needed to be introduced in a tent at the bottom of each armed camp. There was no limit of players (taking into account the size of the field, of course), so the need for so many judges. The sport quickly spread throughout the country, and is now an annual festival in various cities in Italy.

[Edit] The first record of football a sport similar to football today in the territories Britons comes from the book Descriptio Nobilissimae Londinae civitatis, Willian Fitztephe in 1175. The book cites a game (similar to soul) during Schrovetide (sort of Shrove Tuesday), where inhabitants of several English cities took to the streets kicking a leather ball to commemorate the expulsion of the Danes. The ball symbolized the head of an attacker.

For a long time football was merely a celebration for the British. Slowly the sport has become increasingly popular. So much so that the sixteenth century, the violence of the game was so great that the writer Philip Stubbe once wrote: "A barbarous game, which only fosters anger, enmity, hatred and malice." - What in fact was true. It was common in sports broken legs, torn clothes or teeth pulled. There are even news of fatal accidents, like a player who was drowned by jumping from a bridge to catch the ball. There were also many murders due to rivalry between teams. Therefore, the sport became known as "mass football."

In 1700, outlawed the violent forms of football. The sport then had to change, and gained the most modern. In 1710, schools in Covent Garden, Strand and Fleet Street began to adopt football as physical activity. With that, he soon gained new followers, who left sports like target shooting and fencing. With the spread of sports by colleges throughout the country, the problem became different rule types in each school. Two rules from different colleges to prominence at the time: a game using only the feet, and the other with the use of legs and hands. Is created, so the football and rugby in 1846.