The Beautiful Game

- 11月 12, 2020

This week I read The Beautiful Game.

Do you like soccer Do you play soccer? In fact, soccer and football are different. Also, football has a long history. If you want to know such a thing, please read this book.

On 30 July 1930, 93,000 people went to the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay, to watch the final of the first FIFA World Cup. Uruguay beat Argentina 4–2, and was the first country to have its name on the World Cup. There was no television then (the first World Cup on TV was not until 1954). There were forty-one countries in FIFA (from the French for International Federation of Association Football), the international organization which controls football, but only thirteen countries played in the competition.

FIFA, now a global organization, initially had only 41 nations and only 13 teams in the match. The world's first World Cup would have been very meaningful.

Football, for most people, is association football or 'soccer'. A hundred years ago, some English university students took the 'soc' in association football and started calling this new game soccer.

I learned that soccer is a kind of football.

Chinese were playing a ball game called Tsu Chu or Cu: The Greeks, the Romans, and the Japanese Football is very old. More than 2,000 years ago the also played ball games using their feet. In Britain by the year AD 217, village teams were playing football against other village teams. By the year 900 the Chinese were playing a kind football game By the 1300s, there was a lot of football in England with rules, and with goalposts and nets. and other European countries, but it was not the that we know today. Sometimes there were hundreds of in each team and there was a lot of fighting.

Various types of football were played all over the world. It has a long history, it took a long time to become the current soccer, and it was exciting that it was unified as a universal event.

Women have always played football – from games of Tu Chu in China more than 2,000 years ago, to women's matches in Scotland in 1892 and in England in 1895. But it was at the beginning of the twentieth century that women really began to get interested in football. During the First World War (1914–1918) many women began to work in factories. At lunchtime they often played football, and the first women's teams were factory teams.

When I was in elementary school, there was a soccer club and a basketball club. There was a habit of playing soccer for boys and basketball for girls. Thinking about it now, it would be interesting if I also played soccer. I had a feeling that soccer was for men.