History of the game of football
Football is a common name for playing with an airy foot ball. In the United States, its name is Soccar.
There is disagreement about the origin of the game of football. This game with different names was prevalent in ancient, Egypt, Persia, Babylon, Greece and China. However, modern football has developed in England. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, English athlete J.C. Thring made the first rules of the game.
It is thought that football was first introduced by the Greeks and Romans around 350 BC. The ancient Greeks and Romans played a variety of games with balls, some of which were played using the feet. The Greek playwrights Antiphanes (388–311 BC) and Clement of Alexandria (c.150-c.215 AD) mentioned ball in their writings. This game was like playing rugby football. It was shaped like a balloon. This ball was made by filling the air inside the leather bag. The name of this game was Episkyros. The Roman game Harpastum comes from this early Greek game. According to the Roman politician Cicero (106–43 BC), a man was hit by a ball while saving in a barber shop during the game.
Chinese children play cuju
Kemari game in Japan
But FIFA has previously recognized the ancient Greek game Episkyros (ἐπίσκυρος) as the prototype of the game of football. But as a competitive sport, 蹴鞠 cuju has been recognized by FIFA as the first football game. In the third and second centuries BC, the Chinese played as an auxiliary part of military training. The Chinese military text Zhan Guo Ce (written between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC) is synonymous with football. The name cuju is found in the description of military exercises in this text. Note that cuju means kick ball. In this game a leather ball was kicked with the foot. In this game, small circuits were made of silk cloth and attached to bamboo 9 meters above the ground. The rules of the game of cuju were established in China during the Han Dynasty of China (206-220 AD).
Over time the game spread to Korea and Japan and gained popularity. In Japan, the game is called kemari (蹴鞠 kemari). The rule of the game was that some people would kick the ball inside a circular field, but they would try not to let the ball fall to the ground. In Korea, it was called chuk-guk.