Football Fever across the Globe
Central Idea The history of football reveals how the sport was once a way of life to several nations the sport is widely appreciated across the globe because its roots can be trace to influential nations that spread the football fever worldwide.
Attention Getter For the Game. For the World. That is FIFAs commitment to its fans (Federation Internationale de Football Assocation). Indeed, the Federation Internationale de Football Assocation, or FIFA, has the world hooked on football.
Reveal topic The history of the sport itself will tell us how it has become such a popular sport globally.
Credibility Statement As a great fan of soccer, as the Americans would call football, I have done some detailed research on the sports origin and how it rose to fame.
Relevancy Statement It is worth our time to explore the beginnings of football and the FIFA World Cup because it brings together football players and football enthusiasts to celebrate the most popular sport.
Preview The history of football reveals how the sport was once a way of life to several nations the sport is widely appreciated across the globe because its roots can be trace to influential nations that spread the football fever worldwide.
Transition The immense popularity of football can be best understood if one takes a glimpse of its history.
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There were already primitive forms of football long before the codes and rules of football were formally created.
The earliest known form of football was called TsuChu (Federation Internationale de Football Association).
The game consists of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through the opening, measuring only 30-40 cm in width, into a small net fixed into bamboo canes (Federation Internationale de Football Association).
The only body parts that were allowed for use were the feet, chest, back and shoulders to withstand the attacks of opponents.
The Romans had their own versions the Harpastum (Federation Internationale de Football Association).
There were two teams on a rectangular field marked by boundary lines.
The objective of the game was to get the ball over the oppositions boundary lines and as the players passed it between themselves, trickery was the order of the day (Federation Internationale de Football Association).
The game remained popular for 700-800 years and the Romans took it to Britain with them (Federation Internationale de Football Association).
Official history documents show that football was born in the British Isles from the 8th to the 19th centuries (Federation Internationale de Football Association).
Primitive football was more disorganized, more violent, and more spontaneous and usually played by an indefinite number of players (Federation Internationale de Football Association).
There were many forms of football in the early British times, depending on the region.
Scholars say that early football players found inspiration in the natural impulse to demonstrate strength and skill during pagan rituals.
It was not until 1863 that the rules of football were established.
While primitive football was widely appreciated, the sport met opposition views when it was turned into a formal sport in as early as 1314 football was a highly controversial sport for over 300 years (Federation Internationale de Football Association).
There were some movements to refine the sport to make it more acceptable.
Football only became acceptable in the 19th century when schools started mandating football as a sport because it fostered qualities such as loyalty, selflessness, cooperation, subordination and deference to team spirit.
The progress reached its Zenith when Cambridge officials convened to discuss common ground rules for the game.
This meeting marked the birth of The Football Association.
Progress was quick from there and spread all over the world, mainly because of the British influence abroad.
The Federation Internationale de Football Association was founded in 1921.
Its membership grew from 21 in 1921 to 41 in 1930, when the first World Cup was held.
(Internal Summary The global history of football reveals that the sport started as a way of life and was gradually transformed into a formal sport.)
The FIFA World Cup is currently the largest and most lucrative sporting event in the world (Doley).
It is a de facto sport of almost 2 billion people from 93 countries (Doley).
The sport also has the largest fan base, players and professional leagues in Europe and Latin America.
Football has also become a great source of income because of football clubs where major shareholders and players profit from the sport greatly (Giulianotti, 87).
Football, FIFA in particular, has become phenomenal because major brands sponsor the game as a way of advertising their brand because of the sports huge fan base.
(Internal Transition The football fever has become so intense for millions worldwide that businesses see it as an opportunity to profit)
Transition Football has indeed gone a long way from a primitive, regional sport to a global phenomenon
Conclusion
Summary Statement The main reason FIFA World Cup is the most awaited sporting event is that football is a way of life that has been embedded in the history of major civilizations.
History reveals that it is both appreciated in the West (Britain and Rome) and the East (China).
FIFAs major sponsors invest in the sport because football is one of the greatest cultural institutions which shapes and cements national identities throughout the world (Giulianotti, 23).
Memorable Closing Statement For the game, for the world. FIFA, indeed, brings nations across the world closer together in one highly-anticipated event. Watch FIFA matches and see how cultural diversity in one venue through a single, very simple sport.
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