The History of Football

 

The History of Football

Association football is the most popular spawner watched and played by millions

if not billions of people every weekend it's a sport which can make the world

standstill stop wars and Rockhold nations those of you are subscribes this youtube channel will know that I'm rather passionate about both history and football and few subjects get my juices flowing quite as much as the combination that's it so today I've set myself the task of trying to give the most comprehensive rundown of the entire history of the sport in under 10 minutes that isn't an easy task and if you're wondering why I'm not speaking faster that's because I haven't started yet I'm right about you

though and if I could I'd stick a clock in the corner of this video to count down my 10 minutes though I suspect I'm too technologically challenged to figure out how to do that right strap in get ready and set your stop watches here is the history of football in under 10 minutes numerous territories lay claims haven't been the earliest interpretations of

football dating all the way back to ancient empires FIFA recognizes the Chinese sport of cuju in the 3rd century BC as the earliest form of football for which there is evidence but the Japanese had another variation the sport called Kumari along with the ancient Greeks and Romans who all serve ball games played with the faith accounts from English explorers even report form the sport being played by the Inuit people of Greenland in the 1500s the Native Americans in Virginia in the 1600s and on the Australian continent by Indigenous Australians in the eighteen eighties meanwhile back in Europe and particularly in Britain and Ireland there was a rather lawless and

aggressive medieval sport sometimes referred to as mob football typically played between local villagers the early seeds of football as we know it was sown in upper-class public schools in England and these fee paying schools were the first to start to codify the sport in the 1700s in the early to mid 1800s cambered rolls and Sheffield rules were the dominant codes but both would soon be replaced with the founding of the

Football Association in 1863 the world's first Football Association the FA were

headed up by Hall mates of a Bernese a cob Morley who drew up the first unified laws of the game the year the organization was founded the world's first association football clubs such as Cambridge University barns Sheffield FC and Hallam FC were founded in the mid eighteen hundreds and not long after in 1860 the first non-british team was

founded in lucerne in Switzerland followed by the first non-european team Sarris FC founded in argentina in 1867 both Luzerne and buenos aires football clubs were founded by british people by railway workers and managers in Argentina and by students in Switzerland and they represented the star of the sport spreading internationally in 1867 the world's first football tournament the you Dan Cup took place in Sheffield and was won by Hallam FC five years later the world's first nationwide

competition and the world's oldest football tournament still in existence was born the Football Association cup with the first final seeing London club Wanderers FC overcome the Royal Engineers the first international football match between England and

Scotland took place in 1870 followed by the first international match recognized

by FIFA in 1872 both games ended in drills during the 1870s and 1880s football went from a rigidly individualistic sport in which players look to dribble as far as they could

without losing the ball to a much more tactical team sport an innovation led

primarily by the Scottish klopse during this time British students workers and touring teams began to spread the faz laws of the game further onto France Germany Canada and Scandinavia in 1873 the FA decided the team should swap halves at halftime and brought in sendings off a series foul play a rule implementation still AM busted by Sergio Ramos to this day crossbars replaced tape at the top of the goal matches were

set in 90 minutes in length and referees were given whistles in 1885 professionalism was legalized as the FA fed that major northern clubs forming a breakaway League and in 1888 the Football Association created the world's first football league known as the

Football League with 12 founding members Preston North End won the world's first

league title becoming the first and still the early English team to go unbeaten Jordan an entire campaign as they also lifted the FA Cup the 1890s saw the further globalization of

football along the introduction of nets as New Zealand Argentina and Singapore joined the list of countries with their own football associations in 1904 FIFA was founded as world football's governing body along with all City of course and in 1906 England joined the organization significantly football was officially introduced as part of the Olympic Games at the 1908 Games in London in what would be the first meeting of international teams in a global knockout competition football had been played at the 1919 for games that only buy clubs and scratch teams France were so keen that they answered to teams but their first string of beats in 71 by Denmark who went on to his to nil so the hosts Great Britain in the gold medal match Great Britain won gold again in 1912 the same year the goalkeepers were banned from using their hands outside of the area

meanwhile Uruguay won the first copper America in 1960 following the first world war which disrupted European football the game's first stars were born the likes of Dixie Dean Arthur friedenreich and hos Andrade reached a level of Fame outside of their

home nations not previously seen the 1924 Olympics was the first time European and South American opposition of Metta international level and Uruguay cruise to the gold medal although Denmark and Great Britain refused to compete Jude's a thief refusing to

enforce a strict all amateur status the same disputes or the FA pull out people together in 1928 many they would not feature in the 1930 1934 or 1938 World Cups Uruguay defended their crown in style once again at the 1928 Olympics and FIFA rewarded them hosting rights for the very first World Cup Finals in 1930 there were almost no European teams at the world's first World Cup before jewels remained Savina and Belgium France Yugoslavia and Romania ended up making the journey by sea Uruguayan Argentine Roy's the favorites and they crushed all in their wake enroute to the final for Uruguay became the first FIFA World Cup winners in 1934 fascist Italy were chosen as the hosts a reminder that questionable host selection by FIFA is not a new invention Uruguay refused to participate due to the European teams not traveling to South America the Brits were still in fever exile and Italy won the trophy optimist Cellini picked and met with the referees for all of Italy's games as suspects as that sounds and indeed was Italy did prove their class by becoming the first back-to-back World Cup winners in France in 1938 a major international club competition was set up in 1927 called the metro fur cuff completed between the best club sites in Central Europe and it would be the precursor to the European Cup the winner World Cups between 1934 and 1950 with so many

nations involved in the devastation of the Second World War for some tremendous

teams emerged the conflicts came to an end Britain had been decimated by the war but England have managed to assemble our best of a team during that time the Sally Matthews became ugly the sports first global superstar joined by tremendous football is like rage Carter Neill Franklin Wolfe Mannion and Tommy Lawton another great team of

1940s was the Torino site known as grande Torino who provided the bulk of the Italy team at the time Torino and fall consecutively titles up until 1949 when their entire team was killed in the superg ad as us to enter in as the team returned home from a game against Benfica the World Cup returned in 1950 and it returns as South America for the first time since 1930 Brazil were the hosts and huge favorites England were humiliated by the rank amateurs of the United States at their first World Cup signally ended their golden generation meanwhile Uruguay returned to the competition following two decades away they returned in spectacular fashion coming from a goal down in the decisive game the finals against the host nation Brazil winning 2-1 to make it two from

super la Celeste at the World Cup the final game was watched by a world record

attendance of 199 thousand eight hundred and fifty-four people with more than 170

thousand paying spectators and multiple sources suspecting the actual attendance

so then well in excess of 200 thousand health and safety regulations mean that

record isn't likely to ever be exceeded and Brazil entered a state of national shock and grief following defeats Uruguay that was known as the American also in the 1950s a number of the world's best sport was at the domestic clubs to sign lucrative contracts in

Colombia of an exile from FIFA but that house of cards scene came crashing down the decade will be best remembered for the longevity of two tremendous teams and the birth of one more farang push gas will be unifying force in the first two Nebulon garyun national team and Real Madrid and Hungary's golden generation were irrepressible between 1950 and 1956 losing just one game in six years but that game was the 1954

World Cup final against West Germany the European Cup was founded in 1955 and Real Madrid won the first five editions with a star-studded lineup featuring former Colombian exile Alfredo de Stefano and heck sorry al in addition to the likes of push Coppa and hence oh the next great team was ugly the greatest ever assembled to this day and Raziel first made their mark in 1958 having bounce back from humiliation on home sod in 1950 like Hungary Brazil were getting ready to break ground with a revolutionary formation and a world-class group of players the Brazilians played a four to four formation with two fullbacks who attack like no one had ever seen before a

fantastic forward line and an ace of their sleeve that ace was a 17-year old named Pele who came into the tournament carrying an injury and as a young boy who was unknown outside of Brazil yeah as the most famous football on earth becoming Brazil's top scorer

despite scoring all his goals in the knockout stages Brazil made it back-to-back World Cups in 1962 and made it three from four with the third Jules from a trophy in 1970 Pele was the only player to make all three squads and he spent more than a decade as the best bowler on earth Pele wasn't just better than all those who came before him he

was a freak of nature and he took the sport in who loves England's wingless wonders Marsh by Alf Ramsey won the 1966 World Cup sandwich would soon Brazil's dominance as Jeff first became the first and only man to this day to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final England's star monomyth filled Bobby Charlton had come back from the despair of the Munich air disaster a years earlier which had wiped out so many of Manchester United's brilliant Busby Babes but the Red Devils recovered to win both the first division title and the European Cup in the 1960s with a sensational attacking trio made up of Charlton George Basque and Dennis ball all three of whom won the Ballon d'Or the decade also brought European Cup trunks have been thicker Celtic both Milan clubs and rubber at once again but ended with football giving birth to conflict in Central America as writing during the 1970 World Cup qualifier between Honduras and El Salvador led to the so-called football war taking 3,000 lives in just 100 hours more tactical innovation arrived in the 1970s by rinus michels and Johan Cruyff with their idealistic Total Football and IX and with the Dutch national team their novel approach may have corner even more were not for the more rigidly set at West German team led by Franz Beckenbauer along with it even more pragmatic Argentine team denying them from winning any major silver they can be denied at club level 23 consecutive European Cups followed by three consecutive European transferred by Munich Liverpool became a domestic and European superpower in the 1970s and 80s meanwhile Brian Clough and Peter Taylor took Nottingham Forest from the depths of the second division to two

European Cup titles the outstanding Footballer of the 1980s was a maverick hot-headed and stocky at SAC midfielder by the name of Diego Armando Maradona who graced a football pitch as though he were a gift from God Maradona later claimed it was by the hand of God that he scored a handball against England at the 1986 World Cup four years on from Dino Zoff lifting the trophy with Italy but marathoners individual brilliance

was worried the trophy on its own in 86 by the end of the 1980s a former shoe salesman named Auriga Saki had created a two-time European Cup winning outfit at

AC Milan and a night 90 Franz Beckenbauer became a World Cup winner for the second time but this time as a manager Brazil won the 1994 World Cup thanks largely to the genius of romário who was part of Barcelona's dream team under Johan Cruyff at the time Frances golden generation won consecutive major trophies in 1998 and 2000 followed by a fifth World Cup for Brazil in 2007 as indeed Zidane and Ronaldo laid down their markers as the two best players on earth both thanks Ambrose you don't recorded famous Champions League glories in the 1990s mumma manchester united became the dominant force in the english game under a scottish manager named Alex Ferguson

culminating in a trouble win in 1999 the creation of the Premier League in 1992 led to further televising and commercialization of the sport and an explosion of wages that continues to the present day Italy were unfounded Outsiders going into the 2006 World Cup following the kal Tripoli scandal but they won the tournament after zinedine

zidane saw red in both his and the tournament's final game the late 2000 saw the rise of Spain and Barcelona with their ticky tack a style of play under bench and a table Bosque and Pep Guardiola and they dominated the club an international scene between 2008 and 2012 the late 2000s also heralded the arrival of two footballers who would

cement their reputations to the greatest of all time over the next decade with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi winning 11 bomb doors between them Spanish teams dominated the Champions League thanks in no small parts of those two in the 2010 s and rayul won three consecutive Champions League titles in 2016 2017 and 2018 Spain collapsed at the 2014 World Cup as Germany broke Argentine hearts before collapsing

themselves four years later in Russia as France won their second World Cup and

that just about brings us to the present day I hope that was under 10 minutes or

close enough I haven't seen yet I didn't even have the time to mention the changes in the offside rule which I've dedicated a whole video to in the past the football stadium arms race the Hillsborough disaster that same reporter followed the Bosman ruling our CIL's invincibles or Man City and Liverpool's recent all congruent East hopefully I didn't do too bad though thank you for watching let me know the most significant historical events in football you think I missed in the comments along with any other video ideas like this that you may have for me feel free to give the video a like if you did enjoy them and I would be honored if you were to subscribe internal notifications for HRT see cells