1. History of soccer

　

Do you know soccer? Soccer is sometimes called football. As the name suggest, soccer is sport of kicking a ball. And the team which makes more goal than the opponent team is winner. It is very simple sport. There are many rumors of origin of soccer, however, International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) regards China as the oldest form of it. In fifteenth century, there was play like soccer in Italy. The name is Calcio. It is the nearest existence of modern soccer. It is England that football was formed as a modernistic sport. At the beginning, although it carried out with the form near play of a farm village, it gradually carried out by preparing appearance as a sport. In this time, the football differed in the rule for every school. But the common rule was drawn up in Cambridge University in 1846. This became a basis of the rule of the present soccer. In this way, although it converged on the 2 large-number-of-people power of the "rule which forbids using a hand" centering on the Eaton college, and the "rule which permits using a hand" centering on a Rugby school by the 1850s, still big distance was among both. And farewell of two games (soccer and Rugby) was achieved. This was just a moment of soccer birth. Further the football association was established by the representatives of the public school who asserted the rule "which forbids using a hand." The soccer which was able to be begun in England spread in British each area (Scotland, Wales, Ireland). Though it was private in London, the world's first international match was held between England and Scotland on March 5, 1870. And the first formal international match was carried out between England and Scotland in the world on November 30, 1872. In England, FA cup which will be the first soccer convention 1872 was started. This is a model of the cup game in many other countries and the area. Moreover, domestic outstanding player clubs were collected and the football league which started in 1888 was carried out. In soccer, this is the first league match and many countries and the area make it the model of the league match of their own country.  The first International Convention was an Olympics soccer game in soccer. As an open game, it is carried out from time First Athens Olympics, and was adopted as a formal game at the London Olympic Games in 1908. However, now, FIFA World Cup which should also be called festival of soccer serves as the world's largest sporting event exceeding the Olympic Games.