The history of football
Beginning of the history of the emergence of soccer sport is still inviting debate. Some documents explain that soccer was born since the Roman era, some explain that soccer comes from China. FIFA as the world football body officially declared that football was born from mainland China that originated from the game of Chinese society of the 2nd century until the 3rd BC. This sport was then known as "tsu chu".
In one of the military documents mentioned, in 206 BC, during the reign of the Tsin and Han dynasties, the Chinese people had played a ball called tsu chu. Tsu itself means "crashing the ball with the foot". while chu, meaning "ball of skin and its contents". The ball game used a ball made of animal skin, with the rules of kicking and herding and putting it into a net stretched between two poles.
Ancient historical versions of other football coming from Japan, since the 8th century, the people there have known the game of the ball. The people there call it: Kemari. While the ball is used is a deer skin, but in the middle is a hole and contains air.
According to Bill Muray, one of the football historians, in his book The World Game: A History of Soccer, a game of football has been known since the beginning of AD. At that time, the people of Ancient Egypt were familiar with the technique of carrying and kicking balls made of bundles of linen cloth.
The other side of history is in Ancient Greece also known a game called episcuro, nothing but a game using the ball. This historical evidence is illustrated in museum reliefs depicting the young man holding the ball and playing with his thighs.
The history of modern soccer and has gained recognition from various parties, originally from England, was played in the mid-19th century at schools. Year 1857 stands the first football club in the world, namely: Sheffield Football Club. This club is a school association that pursue the game of football.
In 1863, stood the English football association, the Football Association (FA). The body is issuing the rules of the game of football, so the football becomes more organized, organized, and comfortable to be enjoyed by the audience.
Then in 1886 again formed the body that issued the rules of modern soccer world-wide, namely: International Football Association Board (IFAB). The IFAB was formed by the English FA with the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association in Manchester, England.
The history of football is increasingly tested to date IFAB is the body that issued various rules on the game of football, both about game techniques, terms and duties of the referee, even to transfer the transfer of players.