| Football as it stands we know it today has its origins | | | | Norman. |
| in the UK. England is the birthplace of modern football, | | | | More accurately it is known that sport that would lay |
| but since time immemorial exist in almost all cultural | | | | the foundations of modern football was practiced |
| and peoples of the world very similar to football | | | | since the eighth century in the British Isles, with |
| games. | | | | variations in the place and time. Initially almost without |
| The current rules of soccer or football (or soccer as | | | | rules, and even unrestricted players sometimes play |
| it is known in the United States), born in 1863. Then, | | | | the ball was very popular and even violent. King |
| the fledgling association of English Football (Football | | | | Edward II banned it in 1314, so as to dump his |
| Association) drafted on the basis of the Rules of | | | | subjects to the practice of archery, where the army |
| Cambridge, the first official document that established | | | | needed soldiers trained and skilled. |
| the form of modern soccer game, rules that in later | | | | Historians agree that the origin of football is related |
| years suffered some changes, but essentially | | | | to fertility rituals. So the ball symbolizes the sun, and |
| irrelevant. | | | | the playing field for sown, which must be done by |
| Football (whose technical name is football association) | | | | crossing the sun to ensure a good harvest. |
| is a game of rugby brother, who in turn branches in | | | | By mid-nineteenth century is beginning to unify rules, |
| other sports such as football or Australian football, | | | | and in 1846 at the University Rugby is played the |
| among other variants of what at first was the same | | | | first match with common rules of sport that was |
| game, of course today with abundant differences | | | | beginning to be called football. During the years |
| own entity and each of them. | | | | following a series of intensive discussions on the |
| The Chinese, Greeks, Romans, and even | | | | regulation and modality divides players, giving birth to |
| pre-Columbian peoples of americas, games and | | | | so much as to rugby football. |
| practiced very similar in essence: two very different | | | | The rules of modern football (which they have |
| teams, in an area bounded, and with a ball that should | | | | introduced variations with the years) were fixed by |
| either make representations to the opposite field or | | | | the association of English football in 1863. The |
| do transfer or puerta. En arc determined by the | | | | institution was founded on October 26 of that year, |
| Egyptian tombs have been found data from a sport | | | | that date is often taken as a foundation for football. |
| practiced by the year 2500 BC Although no precise | | | | On December 8 of that year, schools and universities |
| data on how they played or what was, if it is known | | | | especially encouraged by the game with their hands |
| that the ball used in the game is made of animal | | | | finally withdrew from the partnership, and drive the |
| nerves (catgut) to rebound better. | | | | Rugby Football Union. |
| Although it is assumed that it was the Romans who | | | | These years are highly rich in stories and anecdotes. |
| brought the sport to what is now England, since | | | | What happened to half of the nineteenth century, is |
| extended his empire to those lands, there is no | | | | the source of all the groups most popular sports |
| precise data on this, while there is a history of similar | | | | today: soccer, rugby, football, basketball, handball, |
| games practiced by Celtic, and closer in time for | | | | among many, many others. |