football History, Rules, & Significant Players
These games and others may well go far back into antiquity. However, the main sources of modern FOOTBALL codes appear to lie in western Europe, especially England. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, estimated that at the turn of the 21st century there were approximately 250 million football players worldwide. Universal football – a hybrid of Australian rules and rugby league, trialled in Sydney in 1933. The hockey game bandy has rules partly based on the association football rules and is sometimes nicknamed as 'winter football'. Australian rules football has the highest spectator attendance of all sports in Australia. On weekdays (7 p.m. in winter); on Saturdays they had to cease work at 2 p.m. These changes meant that working class children had more time for games, including various forms of football. These codes have in common the ability of players to carry the ball with their hands, and to throw it to teammates, unlike association football w...