FOT-A 2B Ben Z

By frankensyein
  • Jan 1, 600

    Mexico and Central America

    Mexico and Central America
    Played on a court shaped like an "I". object was to project the rubber ball through the ring on each side.
  • Jan 1, 1100

    England

    England
    By the 12th Century, it had become a violent mob sport with no rules
  • Jan 1, 1314

    Kind Edward

    King Edward II ordered citizens to stop playing
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Italy

    Italy
    Italians played a game calcio of 27 or more people. The kicking, carrying, or passing the ball across the line.
  • Jan 1, 1572

    Queen Elizabeth I

    She seriously bans the sport
  • Jan 1, 1580

    Giovanni Bardi

    Giovanni Bardi creates a set of rules for calcio.

  • Alaska and Canada

    Alaska and Canada, the native Eskimos play soccer on ice where the balls are stuffed with grass, caribou hair, and moss.

  • England

    England
    Soccer became legal again and was the country's most popular sport

  • USA

    USA
    USA, in the original Jamestown settlement native American Indians played a game called pasuckuakohowog, meaning "they gather to play ball with the foot." Beaches, a half-mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, served as playing fields for as many as 1000 people at a time. Games were often rough, resulting in broken bones, but no one could be identified because players disguised themselves with ornaments and war paint making retaliation close to impossible. It was common for games to be carried over f

  • King Charles II

    Soccer wins royal patronage from King Charles II

  • USA

    USA
    Soccer was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown.

  • International Soccer

    International Soccer
    The first international match was played between England and Scotland.

  • Penalties

    Penalties
    Penalties were introduced into the game

  • FIFA

    FIFA
    FIFA was created to have authorities and interpret the rules of the game

  • Olympics

    Olympics
    Soccer becomes a part of the olympics

  • World Cup

    World Cup
    First World Cup

  • European

    Birth of european club competitions

  • More World Cup

    First live worldwide TV coverage of the World Cup.

  • Replay

    Action replay machines and videotape used at 1966 World Cup.

  • Korea and Japan

    Korea and Japan
    Korea and Japan co-host the first World Cup outside Europe and the Americas.

  • B.C. Ancient China

    2500B.C. Earliest traces of a soccer like game played during the Emperors birhday