Mark Goles

Football is the name given to a number of different but related sports team. The most popular of these is the World Football Association (also known as soccer). The English word "football" is also applied to American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby football (rugby union and rugby league), and related games. Each of these codes (specific sets of rules) is a more or less known as "football" and sometimes "footy" by his followers.

These games include:

a large spherical or prolate spheroid ball, which is itself called a football.
a team scoring goals and / or points, moving the ball to end an opposing team's field and is in a goal area, or on a line.
objective and / or line defended by the opposing team.
players being required to move the ball mostly by kicking and - in some codes - carrying and / or pass the ball in hand.
objectives and / or points resulting from players putting the ball between two posts.
offside rules, in most codes, restricting the movement of players.
in some codes, points are mostly scored by players carrying the ball across the goal line.
most code readers to score a goal must put the ball either under or over a crossbar between the posts.
players in some codes receiving a free kick after taking a mark / make a fair decision.
Most modern games have their origins in England, but many people around the world have played games which involved kicking and / or carrying a ball from timesWhile old, it is widely accepted that the word "football" (or "soccer") originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe , which were played on foot. [1] These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to equestrian sports often played by aristocrats. Although there is no conclusive evidence for this explanation, the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has even been applied to games that have specific legislation to kick the ball
Throughout the history of mankind, the urge to kick at stones and other objects is supposed to have led to many early activities of kicking and / or running with a ball . Football-like games predate the historical period in all regions of the world, and thus the earliest forms of football are not knownDocumented evidence of what is probably the oldest activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Warring States Period in about 476 BC-221 BC. It describes a practice known as cuju, which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk fabric stretched between two poles 30 feet.


Kemari be played at the Tanzan Shrine, Sakurai, Japan.Another Asia-Ball kicking game, which was influenced by cuju is Kemari. 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 the other, trying not to drop the ball on the ground (like Uppie keep). The game seems to have disappeared sometime before the mid-19th century. (It was revived in 1903, and it can now be seen played for the benefit of tourists to a number of festivals.)

Mesoamerican through ball played with rubber balls are also well documented as existing since before this time, but they had more similarities to basketball or volleyball, and their influence on football modern minimal, most do not class as football.

The Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some.