just to clarify,we thought it waz england but it turns out that cricket is actually our national game(or so ive been informed).does this mean that footy wasnt invented in this fine land of ours or that it was just after cricket that the worlds favourite game came along,hmm?
2007-01-30 08:02:06 · 13 answers · asked by Bazza 2 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
well actually everybody is right, i don't know if you have seen this documentary that FIFA made a couple of years about the history of football, i think it's call " A century of football" something like that. In it it said that there were very differents types of football being invented in different times and places of the world. For example the Mayans played it in a small court where they had to make a small heavy ball pass through a hoop in the air only using their hips and elbows, the Chinnesse played it like a juggleing game, and in Europe they would have the ball in one country, and two large crows would try to get it to their own country ( it was more like rugby) but still it had the concept of kicking the ball around. The film pretty much said that football didn't really have an inventing ground, it just came out of human nature.
2007-01-30 19:35:09 · answer #1 · answered by hlo10786 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
England
2007-01-30 20:42:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The origins of official football as we know today was invented in England.
Many argue it should be called the english game. It was spread around the world by English Ships. Thats why the very first european football clubs were in seaside ports. The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools , mainly attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes.
Check Wikipedia..
2007-01-30 08:20:01 · answer #3 · answered by M J 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to FIFA, the earliest form of the game was back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in China. Just that England organized with today's rules that we know nowadays.
2007-01-30 11:11:55 · answer #4 · answered by Mobius1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
China they used to kick heads around but the game football is English like the rules etc
we have many national sports Football, Rugby, Cricket, Tennis etc
2007-01-30 08:06:30 · answer #5 · answered by Blink-Monkey-Blink 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The rules of the modern game were first written in cambridge and oxford.
In Mesoamerican Cultures such as mayan there was a game quite similar in wich two teams were supposed to get a leather ball into a small ring using their heads, legs, knees and shoulders.
It's been said that this "ball game" used to be played since 3000 BC and that the winner team was actually offered in sacrifice, which was a major price since they would become heroes nearer to the gods than normal humans.
2007-01-30 08:19:56 · answer #6 · answered by tazmaniacme 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
football was conceived in rugby university
it was a deviation of the old boys rugby rules
but it can be traced back to many cultures
pre ad if were going to be pedantic
although the modern rules were introduced around the1880s
american football takes its rules from this althought the americans would like to think they invented football
2007-01-30 08:15:32 · answer #7 · answered by toon_tigger 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the modern laws of football were codified in England(I believe Cambridge).. But games very similar to football were played in China.
2007-01-30 08:06:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Football was invented in England cause it was us that invented the beutiful game who else could?
2007-01-30 08:07:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
england
2007-01-31 02:51:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋