Historia Del Futbol

History of association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, can be traced to as far back as the Medieval period in Britain (medieval football). The modern gameof association football originates from the formation of The Football Association in London, England in 1863 based on multiple efforts to standardize the varying forms of the game. This allowed clubsto play each other without dispute and which specifically banned handling of the ball during open field play and hacking after the fifth meeting of the association (hence the division betweenassociation football and rugby football). At the time, football clubs had played by their own, individual codes and game-day rules had usually to be agreed upon before a match could commence. For example,the Sheffield Rules that applied to most matches played in the Sheffield area were a different code.

The Football Association

The Cambridge rules, first drawn up at Cambridge University in 1848,were particularly influential in the development of subsequent codes, including Association football. The Cambridge Rules were written at Trinity College, Cambridge, at a meeting attended byrepresentatives from Eton, Harrow, Shrewsbury, Rugby, Winchester schools. They were not universally adopted. During the 1850s, many clubs unconnected to schools or universities were formed throughout theEnglish-speaking world, 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 public school pupils in 1857, whichled to formation of a Sheffield FA in 1867.

Foundations of a competition

The laws laid down by the FA had an immediate effect, with Sheffield F.C. and Nottingham (now Notts County) playing anannual fixture on the FA code, among others. As more teams joined the code in the 1860s, the sport veered away from its origins in public schools, came to be played with round balls and by teams that...