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In this week, I will continue to introduce the topic of football development. The sport was at first an entertainment for the Brittish working class. Unprecedented amounts of spectators, up to 30 000, would see some of the matches in the late 19th century. The game would soon expand by British peoples that traveled to other parts of the world. Especially in South America and India, the interest in football would become big. I think the main reason why football can develop into the world's largest sport is its popularity. Anyone can play football, it is passionate and groups. Which makes football easy to carry out. You can in any place, as long as a friend can play football. A very large number of people also play soccer at an amateur level. According to a 2001 FIFA survey, over 240 million people regularly play soccer in more than 200 countries, in every part of the world. http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Soccer Few other sports show examples of passion to t...

In this week, I will share how football is in the form of competition and its development process. The game was often played in schools and two of the predominant schools were Rugby and Eton. At Rugby the rules included the possibility to take up the ball with the hands and the game we today know as rugby has its origin from here. At Eton on the other hand the ball was played exclusively with the feet and can therefore be seen as a close predecessor to the modern football. Tha game in Rugby was called "the running game" while the game in Eton was called "the dribbling game". Proper rules for the game were decided at a meeting in Cambridge in 1848. Another important event in the history of football come about in 1863 when the first Football Association was formed in England. This also led to a standardization of the size and weight of the ball, and also divided the game into two codes: association football and rugby. ——Atlanta VS Chicago Flame ...