Lesson 1: History of Football

Question 1

Football is the game in which two teams of __ players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, try to maneuver the ball into the opposing team’s goal.

Answer 1

11

Question 2

the world’s most popular ball game in numbers of participants and spectators.

Answer 2

football

Question 3

Football’s governing body

Answer 3

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)

Question 4

• a game played traditionally in England.
• played on meadows and roads
• This early form of football was also much more rough and violent than the modern way of playing.

Answer 4

mob football

Question 5

football originated in

Answer 5

England

Question 6

The game was often played in schools and two of the predominant schools were

Answer 6

Rugby and Eton

Question 7

the running game

Answer 7

rugby

Question 8

the dribbling game

Answer 8

eton

Question 9

ancestor of football

Answer 9

eton

Question 10

An attempt to create proper rules for the game was done at a meeting in __

Answer 10

1848, Cambridge

Question 11

the first Football Association was formed

Answer 11

1863, London

Question 12

When and where. It was decided that carrying the ball with the hands wasn’t allowed. The meeting also resulted in a standardization of the size and weight of the ball.

Answer 12

1863, London

Question 13

preferred to run forward with the ball in a more rugby fashion

Answer 13

English teams

Question 14

chose to pass the ball between their players

Answer 14

Scottish teams

Question 15

the __ approach soon became predominant.

Answer 15

Scottish

Question 16

Law-making body

Answer 16

International Football Association Board (IFAB)

Question 17

became the first important competition of football (what, when)

Answer 17

1871, Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup)

Question 18

the first FA Cup match that involved __ and __ ended __ and was followed by __ people at __

Answer 18

• England
• Scotland
• 0-0
• 4,000
• Hamilton Crescent

Question 19

the first international tournament took place and included four national teams (when, what)

Answer 19

1883,
- England
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales

Question 20

When was FIFA founded

Answer 20

1904

Question 21

foundation of FIFA
- a foundation act was signed by representatives from

Answer 21

• France
• Belgium
• Denmark
• the Netherlands
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland

Question 22

England and the other British countries did not join FIFA from the start, they had invented the game and saw no reason to subordinate to an association. Still, they joined in the following year, but would not partake in the World Cup until __.

Answer 22

1950

Question 23

In __ would football for the first time be included as an official sport in the __. Until the first __ was played in __

Answer 23

• 1908
• Olympic Games
• FIFA World Cup
• 1930

Question 24

First World Cup for women’s football (when, where)

Answer 24

1991, China

Question 25

when is world cup celebrated

Answer 25

every 4 years

Question 26

Today there are __ national associations

Answer 26

211

Question 27

The world regions have been divided into six confederations:

Answer 27

• Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF)
• Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
• Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA)
• The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)
• Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
• Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL).

Question 28

The first known examples of a team game involving a ball, which was made out of a rock, occurred in old __ for over 3,000 years ago. It was by the __ called __, although various versions of the game were spread over large regions.

Answer 28

• Mesoamerican cultures
• Aztecs
• Tchatali

Question 29

In some ritual occasions, the ball would symbolize the __ and the captain of the losing team would be sacrificed to the gods. A unique feature of the Mesoamerican ball game versions was a bouncing ball made of __ – no other early culture had access to rubber.

Answer 29

• sun
• rubber

Question 30

The first known ball game which also involved kicking took place In __ in the 3rd and 2nd century BC under the name __.

Answer 30

• China
• cuju

Question 31

__ was played with a round ball (stitched leather with fur or feathers inside) on an area of a square.
- A modified form of this game later spread to Japan and was by the name of __ practiced under ceremonial forms.

Answer 31

• Cuju
• kemari

Question 32

Perhaps even older than cuju was __, played by Aboriginal Australians and according to white emigrants in the 1800s, a ball game that primarily involving kicking. The ball was made by encased leaves or roots. The rules are mostly unknown, but as with many other early versions of the game, a chief feature seems to have been to keep the ball in the air.

Answer 32

• Marn Gook

Question 33

In the Ancient Rome, games with balls were not included in the entertainment on the big arenas (amphitheaters), but occurred in exercises in the military by the name of __.

Answer 33

Harpastum

Question 34

• 2nd & 3rd century B.C.in China, known as __ __
• Leather ball filled with feathers and hair kicked through an opening, measuring only __ in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes as part of a military exercise

Answer 34

• Tsu’ Chu
• 30-40cm

Question 35

• The Greek ‘__’ was much livelier, as was the Roman ‘Harpastum’.
• The latter was played out with a smaller ball by two teams on a rectangular field marked by boundary lines and a center line.
• The objective was to get the ball over the opposition’s boundary lines and as players passed it between themselves, trickery was the order of the day.
• The game remained popular for __-__ years, but, although the Romans took it to Britain with them, the use of feet was so small as to scarcely be of consequence.

Answer 35

• Episkyros
• 700-800

Question 36

Soccer in the Imperial Roman Soil
- The Ancient Romans were enjoying another version of football.
- Soccer in Ancient Rome has no rules, strategies, or tactics.
- It was played by __ players (__ on each team) whose only aim is to get the ball to the opposing team’s goal.
- It became so popular that it was included in the early __

Answer 36

• 54
• 27
• Olympics

Question 37

Soccer during the Middle Ages:
- The English in general were the ones who kept the tradition of football alive during the Middle Ages
- In mid-14th Century England, it was called the ‘__ __’
- It was played by an __ number of players
- It was played in the streets & turned towns into giant pitches

Answer 37

• Mob Football
• unlimited

Question 38

Birth of FIFA
- From England, it easily spread to other European countries such as __, __, the __, and __.
- These countries helped form the Governing Body of Football, FIFA to oversee the International games

Answer 38

• Spain
• France
• Netherlands
• Sweden

Question 39

It became known as football, __, __, and __ in different countries but in the United States, it became known as __.

Answer 39

• futbol
• futebol
• fussbol
• soccer

Question 40

Who said, “It offers the spotlight for individual brilliance while relishing the defiance and heart of collective endeavor. It has staged tragedy and comedy, epic and pantomime, unsophisticated music hall and inaccessible experimental performances. It does imperious triumph, lucky escapes, impossible comebacks and stubborn stalemates. It captures the brilliance of unpredictability, the uncertainty of the human heart and human skill, of improvisation and chance.”

Answer 40

David Goldblatt

Question 41

What is the earlier form of football from China?

Answer 41

Tsu’chu

Question 42

In what year was the first FIFA World Cup game played?

Answer 42

1930