| Soccer, the most widely played team game in the | | | | international football match was played between |
| world and also the most popular spectator sport has | | | | England and Scotland in Glasgow on 30 November |
| been played on the planet for over 3000 years. The | | | | 1872. After the English Football Association, The |
| derivation of soccer is found in every turn of | | | | Scottish FA (1873), the FA of Wales (1875) and the |
| geography and history. The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, | | | | Irish FA (1880) are the next oldest football association. |
| Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking, and many more played | | | | Since then the spread of soccer got momentum and |
| a ball game long before our era. According to a | | | | so many countries like Netherlands, Denmark, New |
| Chinese text of 50 B.C. kept in The Munich Ethnological | | | | Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, |
| Museum, a similar game to soccer was played | | | | Germany, Uruguay, Hungary and Finland form their |
| between teams from China and Japan. The earliest | | | | football associations. Soccer's governing body, the |
| evidence of soccer revealed that a skill building | | | | Federation International Football Association (FIFA) |
| exercise was used by the Chinese Military in between | | | | was founded by its seven founder members: France, |
| 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in which they kicked a ball | | | | Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and |
| into a small net. | | | | Switzerland in Paris in May 1904. Presently FIFA has |
| It is England, where the modern-outgrowth of soccer | | | | 208 members associations and the head quarter of |
| has started. England is also the founder country of first | | | | FIFA is in Zurich. |
| Football Association. But before that several times in | | | | 13 July 1930 is the historic day for Soccer as the first |
| between 1300 to 1450, Soccer faced the threatening | | | | World Cup Football was started on this day in |
| of Laws to be banned by the King Edward III and | | | | Uruguay. 13 countries took place on this World Cup |
| Queen Elizabeth 1 of England for its excessive | | | | and the host Uruguay clinched the title. The tournament |
| violence. The first Football Association was created on | | | | is being organized once in every four years. But due to |
| 26 October 1863 in a meeting represented by eleven | | | | Second World War the tournament could not take |
| London clubs and schools in the Freemason's Tavern. | | | | place in 1942 and in 1946.The first women's World Cup |
| In this meeting a set of fundamental rules was | | | | match was played in 1971 in Mexico City. The 19th |
| establish to govern the matches played amongst them. | | | | FIFA World Cup Football will be held in South Africa. It |
| In 1869, the association included a rule which forbade | | | | is scheduled to take place from 11 June to 11 July 2010. |
| the carrying of ball by hand and on this foundation the | | | | 32 countries will take part in the tournament to be the |
| modern soccer stands. The first football competition in | | | | next World Champion of Football. |
| the world - the FA Cup was started in 1871. The first | | | | |