SOCCER FOOTBALL HISTORY

 The history of football, is considered from 1863, the founding year of The Football Association, although its origins, like the other football codes, go back several centuries in the past, particularly in the British Isles during the Middle Ages .
Although there were points in common between different ball games that developed from the third century BC. C., football of the 21st century, the sport as it is known today, has its origins in the British Isles.
The earliest British codes that gave rise to the football association were characterized by their poor organization and extreme violence.

However, there were also other less violent and better organized codes. Perhaps one of the best known was the Florentine Calcium, a very popular team sport in Italy that had an impact on the codes of some British schools. The definitive formation of the football association had its culminating moment during the nineteenth century.

In 1848 representatives of different English colleges met at the University of Cambridge to create the Cambridge code, which would serve as the basis for the creation of modern football regulations. Finally, in 1863 in the city of London the first rules of the football association were formalized.

Since then, football has grown steadily, becoming the most popular sport in the world with some 270 million people involved. With the holding of the first meeting of the International Football Association Board in 1886 and the founding of FIFA in 1904, the sport has expanded to reach all corners of the world. Starting in 1930, the World Cup would begin to play, which would become the sporting event with the largest audience in the world.