Football refers to a number of
sports that involve, to varying degrees,
kicking a
ball with the foot to score a
goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is
association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word
football
applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the
regional context in which the word appears, including association
football, as well as
American football,
Australian rules football,
Canadian football,
Gaelic football,
rugby league,
rugby union and other related games. These variations of football are known as football codes.
Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular
peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to
the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
The influence and power of the
British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread, including to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire,
though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes
were already developing: Gaelic Football, for example, deliberately
incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to
maintain their heritage.
In 1888,
The Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many
professional
football competitions. In the twentieth century, the various codes of
football have become amongst the most popular team sports in the world.
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