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    Football has a long history that can be traced back to the 15th century in England. Some of the earliest organized football clubs formed in the 19th century, including Foot-Ball Club in 1824 in Edinburgh. Notts County, formed in 1862, is considered the oldest professional football club still in existence today. While the sport was initially dominated by public school teams, teams made up of workers later became more common. One of the earliest recorded black football players was Andrew Watson, who played for the Scottish club Queen's Park in the 1880s. The terms "football" and "soccer" developed to distinguish between different codes of football, with "football" being more commonly used worldwide and "soccer" used primarily in

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    Football has a long history that can be traced back to the 15th century in England. Some of the earliest organized football clubs formed in the 19th century, including Foot-Ball Club in 1824 in Edinburgh. Notts County, formed in 1862, is considered the oldest professional football club still in existence today. While the sport was initially dominated by public school teams, teams made up of workers later became more common. One of the earliest recorded black football players was Andrew Watson, who played for the Scottish club Queen's Park in the 1880s. The terms "football" and "soccer" developed to distinguish between different codes of football, with "football" being more commonly used worldwide and "soccer" used primarily in

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    Football has a long history that can be traced back to the 15th century in England. Some of the earliest organized football clubs formed in the 19th century, including Foot-Ball Club in 1824 in Edinburgh. Notts County, formed in 1862, is considered the oldest professional football club still in existence today. While the sport was initially dominated by public school teams, teams made up of workers later became more common. One of the earliest recorded black football players was Andrew Watson, who played for the Scottish club Queen's Park in the 1880s. The terms "football" and "soccer" developed to distinguish between different codes of football, with "football" being more commonly used worldwide and "soccer" used primarily in

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    MORAR MIHAI
    History of football
     Football (or soccer as the game is called in some parts of the world) has a long
    history. Football in its current form arose in England in the middle of the 19th
    century. But alternative versions of the game existed much earlier and are a
    part of the football history.
    The first football clubs
     Football clubs have existed since the 15th century, but unorganized and
    without official status. It is therefore hard to decide which the first
    football club was. Some historians suggest that it was the Foot-Ball
    Club formed 1824 in Edinburgh. Early clubs were often formed by
    former school students and the first of this kind was formed in Sheffield
    in 1855. The oldest among professional football clubs is the English
    club Notts County that was formed in 1862 and still exists today.

     Football teams were established in the larger cities and the new
    railroads could bring them to other cities.

     In the beginning, football was dominated by public school teams, but


    later, teams consisting by workers would make up the majority.
    Black players
     As in many other sports the white male was predominant for a long time. In
    football black players started being present relatively early and in comparison
    with, for example, tennis, football has traditionally been known as a sport with a
    mix of black and white players.

     In Britain, Andrew Watson is known to be the first black player, and he played in
    the Scottish club Queen’s Park in the 1880s.
    The name of the game: football
    or soccer?
    In most parts of the world, football is used as the name for the “chess of the green
    pitch”, the biggest sport in the world. In the United States and Canada, however,
    soccer is used instead as a distinction from American football. A more formal name
    sometimes used is association football, but in popular speech, it is either football or
    soccer.
    Bibliography
    www.footballhistory.org
    and Google images

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