Yesterday's Football
It's all about football in the past like results, match up ,venues , player biography and other info
JAPAN
"KEMARI " Ancient football game of the Imperial Court
Kemari is a ball game that is said to have come from China to Japan during the Yamato period approximately 1,400 years ago. There are no winners or losers in this game, the objective of the game being simply to pass the ball to fellow players.
FRANCE
Football vocab “en Français”
French is spoken by approximately 220 million people all over the world, in countries as varied as Belgium, Switzerland, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Algeria. Here are your must-know football words en Français:
But – Goal
Hors-jeu – Offside
Millieu – Midfield
Attaquant– Striker
Défenseur– Defender
Capitaine– Captain
Arbitre – Referee
Tirs au but – Penalty shoot-out
Prolongation – Extra time
Coup franc – Free kick
Corner – Corner kick
(src. EF)
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URUGUAY
(William Leslie Poole)
English teacher at the "English High School" Montevideo.
Played football in Albion Football Club, Montevideo.
2nd President of the Uruguayan Football Association in 1901.
Known as the "Father of Uruguayan Football".
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BRAZIL
(A Scottish Man Brought Football in Brazil )
THOMAS DONOHOE was the man who made history. He came to Brazil from Busby, Renfrewshire. He taught a few Brazillian people how to play football and organized the first match in April 1894.
(src: sambafoot, culture trip)
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CHINA
The very first origins of football are Chinese and according to FIFA, the earliest form of soccer was a Chinese invention. By the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.—220 A.D.), the game was called Cuju (pronounced tsoo-joo), best translated as “kick ball.”
(src: U China Travel)