The History and

Fundamentals of
Soccer
BY: DAVIN BACH
SECONDARY SOCIAL STUDIES
DAVIN.BACH@STUDENT.CSN.EDU
Overview

Soccer is the most popular team sport worldwide, especially in Europe,

North America and South America. From childrens and community
teams to select and national teams, soccer is available to all ages and
competition levels. Accommodating to all body types, soccer is an
excellent and easily learned team sport for youth players. Soccer is not
only a fun hobby, but has great health benefits including improved
cardio-vascular health, muscular strength and endurance.
History

Dating as far back as 3,000 years ago, many ball kicking games
have been played worldwide. In China and Rome, games
combining soccer and rugby were played, using an inflated
bladder of a cow or goat as a ball.
The first Football Association was developed in 1863 in England.
Football and rugby split and formed new rules, and only eight years
later, with fifty member clubs, the first international matches were
staged.
The History of Soccer Continued

In England, the game was surrounded by an aura of violence and

was considered dangerous and sinful game. As such, it was
banned in 1314 by Nicolas de Farndone, the Mayor of London.
In 1862 , a solicitor by the name of Cobb Morely, formed a semi-
professional soccer club in Barnes, England; called the Barnes Club.
Cobb Morely is rightfully considered the father of soccer, but thats
not just because he was the one to spark the idea of the Soccer
Association.
He also drew up the Laws of the Game, probably the most
important document in the history of soccer, since it held all the
official rules around which the game would be played.
The First Soccer Ball

1855 Charles Goodyear designed the first soccer ball.

Made of Vulcanized rubber. Vulcanization is a chemical process for
converting natural rubber or related polymers into more durable
materials via the addition of sulfur or other equivalent curatives or
accelerators. These additives modify the polymer by forming cross-
links between individual polymer chains.
Designed like todays basketball.
Ancient Civilizations and Soccer

Mesoamerican civilizations also devised a game played with rubber

balls, which resembled a combination between soccer, basketball,
and volleyball.
The game involved two teams, playing in a sort of basin dug below
ground level, with baskets strapped in several locations on the side
walls.
The teams would then have to kick the ball towards these baskets,
and score a goal.
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Basic Rules of The Game

Each team must have ten field players and one goalkeeper. Games
are ninety minutes long, separated by a fifteen minute half, and are
supervised by a referee and two assistant referees to enforce the rules.
Play is stopped when the whole of the ball passes over one of the
touch lines, it may be put back into play by a throw-in by a member of
the opposite team who put the ball out of play. A point is awarded
when the whole of the line passes over the opposites team end line
between the posts of the goal. A free kick or penalty kick may be
awarded to the opposite team in the event of an offside, a foul, or
misconduct performed by their opponents.
Offensive and Defensive Soccer
Positions
Cristiano Ronaldo

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Examples of Soccer Drills