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ISTORIA FOTBALULUI MONDIAL

2500 B.C. Ancient China, the earliest mention researchers have found of a soccer like game states that balls made of animal skin were kicked through a gap in a net stretched between poles 30 feet high. Records indicate that tsu chu was played as a part of the emperor’s birthday celebration.
2500 B.C. Ancient Egypt & Near East, historians have suggested that fertility rites in Ancient Egypt and religious ceremonies in Ancient Near East may have been linked to the development of the game.
B.C.'s Rome, Greece, Japan & China, references to games which were remote ancestors of football we're found.
100-500's A.D. England, one story speaks of using the enemies skull as a ball. Another tells of a brave village defeating a Roman team and running them out of town in 217 AD.
200 Italy, the Italians played a game called "harpastum" which they introduced to the British.
217 England, the British said that they already played a similar game. British soldiers said that they started playing the game by kicking the skulls of defeated Roman Soldiers from a liberated village. Then, Britain seemed to play this so-called football game more than other countries.
600-1600 Mexico & Central America, the creation of the rubber ball was in Mexico & Central America. These people played games on a recessed court shaped like a capital "I". The court was 40-50 feet long with vertical walls several feet high. In the middle of each wall was a mounted stone or wooden ring and the object was to project the hard rubber ball through the ring.
Middle Ages Italy, British Isles & France, records of the game we're found.
1100's England, by the 12th Century, the game had become a violent mob sport with no rules and any sort of behavior condoned.
1314 England, King Edward II orders citizens to stop playing football.
1369 England, edict of King Edward III forbids the game of football because it interfered with archery.
1500's Italy, the Italians played a game called calcio with teams of 27+ people. The game was simple: kicking, carrying or passing a ball across a goal line.
1561 Richard Mulcaster, an English schoolmaster, mentions the game in a treatise on the education of the young, influenced by the game of calcio in Florence.
1572 England, Queen Elizabeth I seriously bans football.
1580 Italy, Giovanni Bardi publishes a set of rules of the game of "calcio".
1605 England, football became legal again and by the end of the 17th century it was the country's most popular sport.
1609 USA, in the original Jamestown settlement native American Indians played a game called pasuckuakohowog, meaning "they gather to play ball with the foot." Beaches, a half mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, served as playing fields for as many as 1000 people at a time. Games were often rough, resulting in broken bones, but know one could be identified because players disguised themselves with ornaments and warpaint making retaliate close to impossible. It was common for games to be carried over from one day to the next with a feast for all at the conclusion of the match.
1600's Pacific Islands, inhabitants were early to develop games using hands and feet. They used coconuts, oranges and pig bladders as balls.
1600's? Alaska & Canada, the native Eskimos played aqsaqtuk or soccer on ice. Balls were stuffed with grass, caribou hair, and moss. One legend tells of 2 villages playing against each other with goals 10 miles apart. There is no know date of origin.
1680 England, football wins royal patronage from King Charles ll.
1820's USA, football was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown.
1827 USA, Freshman and Sophomore classes at Harvard had instituted an annual intramural football contest in 1827, played on the first Monday of the new school year. These games were evidently quite rowdy as the event was known as "Bloody Monday".
1830's England, the modern form of soccer originated. The sport grew among working-class communities and was seen as a way of keeping young and energetic kids out of trouble at home and in the school; they could let off steam and learn the values of teamwork (rampant individualism was considered a problem at the time).
1848 England, the first Cambridge Rules are drawn up.
1862 USA, Oneida Football Club; formed in Boston in 1862, was the first soccer club anywhere outside of England.
1863 England, The Football Association is founded.
1871 Sheffield FA played London FA in one of the first regional matches.
1872 First international football match between England and Scotland.
1883 The four British associations agree on a uniform code and form the International Football Association Board.
1885 USA, USA versus Canada, first international match played between teams outside of Great Britain.
1885 The introduction of professionalism.
1886 The Football Association starts training match officials. First meeting of the International Football Association Board.
1888 The league system is inaugurated - professional footballers are allowed. Referees are given extensive powers of control.
1888 Introduction of the penalty kick.
1899 The Football Association sends its first representative team abroad. A German team visits England.
1904 FIFA is established at a meeting in Paris on 21 May by delegates from France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
1908 Football becomes an Olympic event.
1913 FIFA becomes a member of the International F.A. Board.
1920's Professionalism comes to continental European countries.
1930 First World Cup with 13 teams in Uruguay.
1937/38 The Laws are set up in a new system of codification, but based on the Laws previously in force.
1938 English FA Cup Final televised live by BBC.
1954 Birth of Eurovision. Fifth World Cup in Switzerland.
1955 Birth of European club competitions.
1956 RAI begins regular Serie A transmissions.
1958 First live world-wide TV coverage of the World Cup.
1960 TV rights for European Cup Final (Real Madrid v Eintracht Frankfurt) raise £ 8,000.
1962 FIFA's membership reaches 100. World Cup television film flown out of Chile to Europe.
1966 Action replay machines and videotape used at 1966 World Cup.
1970 World Cup in Mexico beamed by satellite to Europe. Live league football pioneered in Spain.
1977 First FIFA World Youth Tournament in Tunisia (renamed World Youth Championship in 1981, for players under 20).
1979 75th Anniversary of FIFA Ð Inauguration of FIFA House.
1985 First FIFA U-16 World Tournament in China (renamed Under-17 World Championship in 1991).
1988 Start of the FIFA Fair Play campaign.
1989 First FIFA World Championship for Five-a-side Football in the Netherlands.
1990 167 countries around the globe buy Italia 90 TV.
1991 First FIFA World Championship for Women's Football in China, won by the USA.
1994 32 billion watch USA 94 (cumulative total).
1996 Major League Soccer (MLS) begins as the top USA pro-soccer league.
1998 37 billion watch FRANCE 98 (cumulative total).
1998 Joseph S. Blatter succeeds Joao Havelange as FIFA President.
1999 Women's World Cup Final in the Los Angeles, USA sees the USA beat China in front of 90,185 fans. This was the largest ever attendance for a women's sporting event in world history. The tournament had over 658,000 attendees and over 1 billion television viewers worldwide, thus not only putting women's soccer but women's sport into mainstream society forever.
2000 Brazil hosts the first FIFA Club World Championship, won by Corinthians of Brazil.
2002 Korea and Japan co-host the first World Cup to be held outside Europe and the Americas.
2004 FIFA celebrates its centenary.