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The Foundation of Football

Summary:   This essay describes the first steps of football becoming an association.


The history of football started not long ago. This sport as an association was founded on 26th of October 1863 at the Freemason's tavern in Holborn, England. However, according to some sources football was already played more then two thousand years ago. There are records, which say that earlier forms of this sport were already found in China, Greece and Rome as I said over two thousand of years ago. At that times football fields were as long as the towns' people lived in. Citizens divided into two parts and played. But of course it was not a real.....

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