History of football

The association football history, known simply as football, is cited from 1863, year of foundation of The Football Association, although its origins, like other football codes, can be traced back several centuries in the past, particularly in the British Isles during the Age media. Although there were commonalities between different ball games that were developed from the third century. C.The football back to the Mayans and the Greeks because they played like it was a sport that foot had to get the ball into a hoop and that's where football comes to some people. And the modern game ,  the sport as we know it today has its origins in the Canary Británicas.

The first British codes that gave rise to association football were characterized by poor organization and violence extrema. However, there were other less violent codes and better organized: perhaps one of the best known was the calcium Florentine popular team sport in Italy that had an impact on some schools codes británicas. The final formation of association football had its peak during the nineteenth century. In 1848 representatives of different English schools gathered at the University of Cambridge Cambridge to create code that would work as a basis for the creation of moderno. football rules in 1863 in London finally made official football rules first asociación.

Since then football has enjoyed steady growth, to become the most popular sport in the world with about 270 million people involucradas. With the completion 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. From 1930 would begin to play the World Cup, which would become the most-watched sporting event on the planet.