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Native Americans participate in a football game
In north america native american indians in the original james town settlement played a game called pasuckohovog meaning they "gather to play ball with foot" it was a rough game. played on the beach, with 1 mile apart and with as many as 1000 players at a time -
Ressurection of sport
King charles the second resuurected sports and tennis, yachting and hunting grew in popualirty, this then inflenced manysports to developand grow as a sport -
The saturday half day
This was a major incident in sports development, it provided a period where people could take part in sporting activities so workers had more to offer lesuire activities. Factory workers had more productive so they reduced working hours and people get at least four hoilidays each year -
public transport and car ownership
Improved transport systems started to contribute to sport from the 1850's with the railway system. This allowed large numbers of people to travel around the country which helped to popularise sports such as football, rugby and criket. Roads improved in the 1950;s and this helped bus travel, people could easily tracel to support their favourite tema and participate in many different sports -
Soccer played at the olympic games
Football was introduced at the olympics for the first time which is important as the game has become extremly populare and is still played every day -
Football became an olympic event
Football becomming an oylympic event allowed alot more people to participate against eachother and provided a wider veiwing audience for the sport -
Winter olympics
The winter olympics allowed many athletes to compete in a copmpetition which hasnt been held before which would allow many new athletes to participate in a new set of events -
First world cup 1930 Uruguay
The first world cup happened in 1930 which is a large football event which meant many football fans were allowed to go and watch the country which they were from, in a new competition and also many players were allowed to go and participate in the world cup -
English FA Cup televised live by BBC
This allowed many people to view a up final for the first time which then introduced many different companies to show different matches in football -
Role of PE in schools
Sport has developed because of the role of PE in school, PE lessons encourage the development of skills that are used in many sports and a great numberof extra curricluam aims to get as many children in sport as possible. PE also involves the learning of information health, fitness and diet -
Better working conditions
Working conditions became better for workers which allowed people to have shorter hours of work which could sloow people to particpate in sport, wages also increased which in turn made people have an increase of disposable income available to indviduals -
UEFA formed
When UEFA formed this was a huge event as UEFA. UEFA is a board which looks after european club compatitions which is a major event as UEFA is still one of the main boards in football today -
Birth of European club competitions
This was a huge development in football as this means European could be able to compete against each other and there is still Europe competitions around today -
Action replay machines and videotape used at 1966 world cup
This allowed people to see what is happeing in the world cup which was playing in a different country -
First live worldwide TV coverage of the world cup
The first worldwide coverage of the world cup was that people around the world could view the world cup for the first time which meant more funds were made available for the sport and also the sport grew more popular -
Hillsborough Disaster
when The hillsborough disaster occured which then started a revoloution in many clubs, this required them to improve the condition of their terrible stadiums and a lot of clubs decided to build a whole new stadium alltogether -
Coach UK developed
This was designed to help sports governing bodies who had tended to do their own thing and lacked a joined up strategy -
Introduction of sky sports
Sky sports launches was introduced a large number of funds and a large number of fans to be introduced into the wonderful game. sky sports now invest billions into football which will provide many clubs with a lot of funds and also fans can now view their clubs playing matches -
Introduction of MUTV
The introduction of MUTV allowed many fans to see their clubs in a way they could not do before, allowed them to see their matches, recent news and what is going on in the club, this then influenced many clubs to get their own tv chanel. MUTV was the first football channel to be created but now they are many clubs such as Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool, this also in turn created funds for the club -
First fifa World youth tournament in tunsia
This was a great development in football as this meant many youth players got a chance yo make a name for themselves and go professional -
Start of the fifa fair play Campaign
This campaign meant that everyone involved with a club would have to act fairly to the opposing team -
Cristiano ROnaldo Become the most expensive player in the world
Cristano ronaldo became the most expensve player in the world when Real Madrid bought him from Manchester United. This showed how much football has come along as now there is enough money to spend on players -
World cup was hosted for the first time in africa
The world cup in Africa showed a huge deveolpmeant of football in africa, It showed that Africa had the funds to hold such an event and that the sport was growing more popular with the centiment -
BT launched
BT sports launched which provided some compition for sky sports this also allowed more fans toveiw foorball and provided funds for many clubs -
Goal line technoalgy
Goal line technogolgy is installed in every teams ground in the english Premier league, the shows a huge development as FIFA decided to understand many of the mistkaes made by offiials in order to make games more fair