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Football

Federation Football is the most widely played game around the world, not to be confused with Association Football which only a few limited countries still play(eg. America, Canada). Federation Football is not Soccer, only Association Football is also named Soccer as the term Soccer comes from the word Assoc short for Association.

101.172.255.223 (talk) 23:36, 3 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia

Certain countries have football federations, see Category:UEFA member associations for some examples but they are the governing bodies for association football. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 11:29, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Origins of football

"On July 15, 2004, Mr. Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, declared to the world on the Third China International Football Exposition that football was originated from China; thus Linzi in Zibo of Shandong Province was officially recognized as the birthplace of football." ^[1]

On 13 June 2008 FIFA are on record as declaring "...It was recently argued that a form of football, or "cuju", as it was named originated in the Shandong Province of Linzi during the West Han Dynasty. A primitive version of football existed in China centuries before it was modified and given rules by English scholars to become association football, as it is known today, in the mid-18th century." ^[2].

This claim has since been discredited. No evidence has ever been found to support an historical connection with the Association football the code of football administrated internationally by FIFA, any other modern code of football or any of the medieval football games played in Western Europe from which all modern codes evolved. FIFA have more recently played down their assertion now mealy claiming "scientific evidence" for Cuju being the oldest form of the game on their website. This is despite the Ancient Greek game of Episkyros referred to on this page recognised as an early form if football by FIFA being verifiably older! ^[3]^[4] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrian Roebuck (talk • contribs) 13:06, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed rewording of lede

Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football applies to whichever form of football is locally most popular. The most popular of form of football worldwide is association football, also commonly known as "soccer". Other popular football codes are Australian rules football, Gaelic football, the two codes of gridiron football (American and Canadian) and the two codes of rugby (league and union).^[5]

What do established users say? 216.8.169.45 (talk) 20:34, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Touch footy is the descendent of league, not touch rugby (whatever that is)

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"there are confilicting explanations" Please change it to "there are conflicting explanations" to fix this spelling error. 2001:18E8:2:28C9:F000:0:0:A11E (talk) 17:39, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Wel spoted. --Stfg (talk) 17:48, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Codes development tree

Does anyone know why the codes development tree has suddenly started having ugly black bars behind the names of the sports? Can we remove them as they make it very difficult to read the tree. --Khajidha (talk) 22:04, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, very annoying. It's a table rendering bug in the latest version of Chrome. It looks OK in other browsers. See discussion at Template talk:Chart#Lone boxes collapsing. Indefatigable (talk) 15:07, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

holiguns

Is there a page for name and shame

^ http://features.cultural-china.com/cuju/
^ http://web.archive.org/web/20080613204411/http://www.fifa.com/womenolympic/destination/hostcountry/index.html
^ http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/history/the-game/origins.html
^ http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/clubs/rivalries/newsid=2026693/index.html
^ Reilly, Thomas (2003). "Science and football: a review of applied research in the football code". Journal of Sports Science. 21: 693–705. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

[1] ttp://features.cultural-china.com/cuju/

[2] ttp://web.archive.org/web/20080613204411/http://www.fifa.com/womenolympic/destination/hostcountry/index.html

[3] ttp://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/history/the-game/origins.html

[4] ttp://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/clubs/rivalries/newsid=2026693/index.html

[5] Reilly, Thomas (2003). "Science and football: a review of applied research in the football code". Journal of Sports Science. 21: 693–705. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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