This term and last term we have been focusing on articles and we have all made our own so here’s mine about football.
Article
I love football, I’ve been playing for 3 years. Now I am going to tell you some of the history and how rugger and assoccer evolved into football and soccer. You may not know those names but that’s what football and soccer used to be called.
The History Of Football
The first ever football team was called Sheffield F.C.as the world’s oldest football team, They were the first ever team but they are not well known .
They used to call football rugger (rugby football) assoccer (association football)but they changed the names after a while because it was too confusing and hard to say so they changed it to football and soccer.
The first football player was fergus suter, He is not one of those well known football players like messi and ronaldo but he was the first ever player.The first ever football competition was the youdan cup and it took place in 1867 and that was the first proper football teams to compete.
Rules
There were 11 players but 7 on at a time they did have different positions but they were still in the same places as now and they did the same thing.
There were 4 off at a time and they were the subs like we have subs now, they were for the same things as now and like if you got hurt and tired and you couldn’t run.
You could use your hands but only is you were a goalkeeper like now, the goalie gloves look different to them not but they still do the same thing
Equipment
The first football uniform was black and white stripes and they were a lot less like a uniform then than now and they didn’t even say the name of the club it was just black and white stripes.
They started using shin pads in the early 20th century but until the 2oth century they did not use shin pads so if they got hurt then you just got subbed off.
They did use long socks when they played football but they were a lot different from now because they did not have a lot of money to buy good things.
Conclusion
In conclusion I think that you should play football because it is so fun and you could get fit from it and the history is so cool to see what it is now and what it used to be like, It’s so cool to see what the old equipment used to look like ages ago and the rules are kinda the same but also different so that’s why I like football.