who  first  discovered  football?  and what  is the  value  of  football?
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chinese maybe. the value is for joy.
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In 1855, Charles Goodyear designed and built the first vulcanized rubber soccer balls (footballs).  \nMade of vulcanized rubber panels glued at the seams ( almost like the basketball balls we know today).
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The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise dating back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in China. A military manual dating from the period of the Han Dynasty includes among the physical education exercises, the "Tsu'Chu". This consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30 - 40 cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes - a feat which obviously demanded great skill and excellent technique. A variation of this exercise also existed, whereby the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders whilst trying to withstand the attacks of his opponents. Use of the hands was not permitted. The ball artistry of today's top players is therefore not quite as new as some people may assume.\n\nThe contemporary history of football spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses and the world's first football association was founded - The Football Association in England. Both forms of football stemmed from a common root and both have a long and intricately branched ancestral tree. Their early history reveals at least half a dozen different games, varying to different degrees and to which the historical development of football is related and has actually been traced back. Whether this can be justified in some instances is disputable. Nevertheless, the fact remains that playing a ball with the feet has been going on for thousands of years and there is absolutely no reason to believe that it is an aberration of the more "natural" form of playing a ball with the hands.\n\nMore on the history off the game, check:\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/history/history/0,1283,1,00.html
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First American style football is not only played in the US, but also Europe has leagues, just to name one other location. Both fields are rectangular, with the sidelines (touchlines) being longer than the end lines (goal lines). Both have a midfield, but after these 2 things, it is pretty much over with what is alike.
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For the beginning of American Football go to the NCAA website.  The first known game was a college game between Princeton and Rutgers back in the 1890's.  Professional football has a sorted past.  There were many "regional leagues" from the early 1900's.  These were primarily in the NE and MidW.  An example of these teams would be the Philadelphia Yellowjackets and Pittsburg Steelers.  Look up either/both teams for that background.  The NFL, as we know it, arrives in the 40's.  The NFL Hall of Fame in Canton can supply you with all the details.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29
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Going back a bit in history, you could say that baseball proved that it was possible for sports to succeed economically in America, and it thus became possible for men to make a living by playing a sport. Baseball was really the first sport to do this. The first 'professional' team was the Cincinnate Reds, and they were formed in the 1860s. The National League was organized in 1876 (prior to that there was a league called, I think, the American Association, which lasted form 1871 to 1875).
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http://www.footballhistory.com
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History and development\n\n\nThe Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England. The first set of rules resembling the modern game were produced at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1848, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury, but they were far from universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs were formed, throughout the English-speaking world, independent of schools or universities, to play various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably the Sheffield Football Club (formed by former pupils from Harrow) in 1857, which led to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867. In 1862, J.C. Thring of Uppingham School also devised an influential set of rules.\n\nThese efforts contributed to the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in 1863 which first met on the morning of 26 October 1863 at the Freemason's Tavern in Great Queen Street, London[1]. The only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse. The Freemason's Tavern was the setting for five more meetings between October and December, which eventually produced the first comprehensive set of rules. At the final meeting, the first FA treasurer, who was the representative from Blackheath, withdrew his club from the FA over the removal of two draft rules at the previous meeting, the first which allowed for the running with the ball in hand and the second, obstructing such a run by hacking (kicking an opponent in the shins), tripping and holding. Other English rugby clubs followed this lead and did not join the FA but instead in 1871 formed the Rugby Football Union. The eleven remaining clubs, under the charge of Ebenezer Cobb Morley, went on to ratify the original fourteen rules of the game. Despite this, the Sheffield FA played by its own rules until the 1870s.\n\nToday the laws of the game are determined by the International Football Association Board (IFAB). The Board was formed in 1886[2] after a meeting in Manchester of The Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales, and the Irish Football Association.\n\nThe world's first football league was founded in England in 1888 by Aston Villa director, William McGregor. The original format contained 12 clubs from the Midlands and the North of England.\n\nThe Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA, the international football body, was formed in Paris in 1904 and declared that they would adhere to the rules laid down by the IFAB. The growing popularity of the international game led to the admittance of FIFA representatives to the IFAB in 1913. Today the board is made up of four representatives from FIFA and one representative from each of the four British associations.\nFootball is popular among children as well as adults.
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Soccer is what the Americans call Football in order to differentiate it from "American Football" which is a completely different game.\n\nFootball is a British invented sport with a huge worldwide following now where two teams of eleven players try to kicj a round ball into the other teams net.\n\nAmerican Football has more in common with Rugby Football where two teams of players run with, carry and throw an egg shaped ball to each other and attempt to touch it down behind the goal or kick it over the goal.\n\nRugby football was invented at Rugby School in England when someone picked up the ball during a normal game of football and ran with it.\n\nThe origins of football are thought to have been in the middle ages when baying crowds would compete to kick the severed head of someone who had been executed around the streets.\n\nNot much has changed in europe!!
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firstly "PLEASE CALL IT FOOTBALL NOT soccer"\n\nsorry yanks football in UK came first,and we play with it with the feet. your football is rugby over here.\n\nyou may get some enlightenment from the F.A. IN UK.
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Football was developed in England. In fact, the UK has invented more sports than any other country in the world.\n\nAs to why its so popular, that is something of a social phenomenon, but a lot of the teams were developed from low income area - Arsenal was developed from the military depot in London, Blackburn Rovers was developed by old members of Blackburn Grammar school. In its early days, because of the low cost involved in watching the matches, and the limited time (all matches pretty much finish in under 2 hours, including stopages), it became very popular with the working class - mill workers, factory workers, general labourers, who did not have a great deal of disposable income or a lot of leisure time, so would go to watch a match to "escape" from the reality of their lives.\n\nOh, and its not just the UK. It is very popular in all European countries (Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and France all have great domestic leagues), is very popular in Africa (with the emergence of more and more world class African footballers), and is amazingly popular in South America (Brazil is pretty much always the best team in the world, and Argentina is always up there amongst the best). America is pretty unique in not having a massive following in football. It is about the only country to show any major interest in "Grid Iron" (American football) or Baseball (both developed from UK sports - rugby and rounders). Basketball is pretty popular in countries like Greece, and volleyball is quite popular in a lot of warm countries - but the UK is just too cold for it.\n\nBasically, football is the number one sport in the world - more people watch it than any other sport, and it has a lot more money involved in it in total than any other sport. The football world cup is a true world cup, with countries from around the world participating, as opposed to the world series, which involves a team from America versus, erm, a team from America...
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There's two parts to this:\nThe origin of American football is in the history of the world's most popular sport: soccer. When soccer -- more universaly known as "football" (which of course makes sense because soccer players use their feet) -- participants decided to change their centuries-old game with restrictions such as the no-use of hand rules, people who disliked this broke away to create rugby. In the states we have created our own version of the game under the same old name "football" with more of a rugby style, the whole time forgetting why we call it that.\n\nThe word "soccer" actually comes from England, where the   modern version of the game originated.\nIn England, there were two types of football: rugby football and association football. The slang term for rugby football was "rugger," and the slang for association football was "assoc." The word "assoc" gradually evolved into "soccer," which was much easier to say.\nWhen association football was introduced to North America, gridiron football (the type played by the NFL and in the Super Bowl) was already well established. To avoid confusion, Americans adopted the British nickname "soccer" for the new sport.
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What has this to do with English Football?  Did I miss something obvious?
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soccer, outdoor ball and goal game, also called association football or simply football. The first recorded game probably was that on a Shrove Tuesday in Derby, England, part of a festival to celebrate a victory over a contingent of Roman troops (A.D. 217). By 1175 the Shrove Tuesday soccer game was an annual event.\nThe sport remained popular for centuries in England under the name football. But the advent of rugby (1823) as a variant led to confusion. The London Football Association was formed (1863) to further the game that emphasized the kicking of the ball. This became known as association football and then, through abbreviation, as soccer. It was rapidly adopted in continental Europe, where it still generally goes under the name football. Other related sports called football are popular in countries including Ireland and Australia.
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Ok this is easy!  Does anyone remember the hidden ball trick by Ken Stabbler?  He would hike the ball and make it look like he handed off to a running back who would go down into a pile right away...and while everyone stops thinking the play is over,,,,stabbler who had the ball the whole time behind his back would sneak around the end when no one was looking for a touchdown!    Never been a play like that since!
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I think U may ask about it in the frederation of football in Netherlands.Good luck\n:)