Soccer History

Soccer was invented in England in the 1800s. The world's first professional soccer team, Sheffield FC, was founded on October 24, 1857

The biggest change of all baseball equipment that helped to improve the players game was the Baseball Glove. The first players to use baseball gloves were often taunted and teased as being "too soft" or "sissies" because they did not want to catch the ball with their bare hands.

The first baseball gloves were used in the 1870s. The basic idea was to create a glove that would pad and protect the players' hands and provide a cushion for catching the ball. Surprisingly, the first gloves were designed so the player could knock the ball to the ground and not necessarily catch it. History's first baseball gloves were made from pieces of leather sewn together to fit over a player's hand. Many early baseball gloves were simple leather gloves with the fingertips cut off, supposedly to allow for the same control of a bare hand, but with extra padding. The adoption of the baseball glove by baseball star Albert Spalding when he began playing first base influenced more infielders to begin using gloves. By the mid 1890s, it was the norm for players to wear gloves in the field. The largest improvement ever in glove design happened in 1920, when Bill Doak, a journeyman pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, approached Rawlings with an idea for a web laced between the first finger and thumb. Before Doak's invention, gloves were primarily protective equipment that kept fielders' hands and fingers from being hurt by hard hit balls. Bill Doak developed the idea of putting a substantial webbing between the glove's thumb and first finger to form a substantial pre-formed pocket in which to catch the ball. The Rawlings "Bill Doak" model that was first introduced in 1922 was so revolutionary that it remained available until 1953 with only minor modifications. Doak's invention was the ancestor of all modern gloves. For more information on vintage baseball gloves, and the Bill Doak baseball glove. I will leave a link below. Batting Helmets/ Shin Guards Hall of Fame Catcher Roger Bresnahan Played between 1897 - 1915 Bresnahan most notable contributions to the game were in protective equipment. In 1905 after getting "beaned" in the head with a baseball began experimenting with head gear similar to the leather football helmet of the period that were made by A.J. Reach. Sliced vertically: one half for covering the left side of a right handed batter's head, the other for the lefty hitter. Two years later in 1907 he devised catcher's shin guards. The first, evidently modeled after a cricketer's leg pads but were large, and bulky. NL president Pulliam dismisses the Opening Day protests of Pittsburgh manager Fred Clarke over Roger Bresnahan's shin guards. As yet, Bresnahan was the only catcher using them. Ignoring the ridicule, it was not thought to be gentlemanly to use them. By 1909 the design was refined, and became accepted, and more wildly used. I will leave a link for the very first style "reeded" shin Guards designed by Roger Bresnahan below.

* Grzegorz Lato, footballer (born 8 April 1950 in Malbork, Poland) - Lato is the all-time cap leader for the Polish National Football Team. He was the leading scorer at the 1974 Fifa World Cup, where he won the Golden Shoe after scoring a tournament best seven goals. Lato's playing career coincided with the golden era of Polish football, which began with Olympic gold in Munich in 1972 and ended a decade later with a third place finish at the 1982 World Cup in Spain, a repeat of the Poles' impressive finish at the 1974 championships in Germany. Lato retired from professional soccer in 1984 with 45 international goals, a record that stands to this day.

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The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows:

1. greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;
2. goal difference in all group matches;
3. greatest number of goals scored in all group matches.

If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their

rankings will be determined as follows:

1. greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
2. goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
3. greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
4. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

I think soccer is so popular because of all the age groups who canplay it cause it is so easy to learn

soccer is so popular because kids and adults of all ages can play it like you said its easy to lean and anyone can play the sport

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The person I have is called Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorf,"

This is a shorten version of the name, the full version exceeds over 500 letters, the longest surname in the world.

Law 7 of the Laws of the Game governed by FIFA a soccer match is comprised of two 45 minute halves unless the two teams and the referee agree mutually on a different length.


A half time period of no longer than 15 minutes is given to both teams.


Referees have the option of extending time only at the end of the second half to make up for lost time due to:

• substitutions
• player injuries (assessment of and removal from field of play)
• wasting time
• any other reason at the referee's discretion

From Wikipedia

• Brazil: 5
• Italy: 4
• Germany: 3
• Uruguay: 2
• Argentina: 2
• England: 1
• France: 1
• Spain: 1

Italy (4 world cups)

Germany (3 world cups)

Uruguay (2 world cups)

Argentina (2 world cups)

England (1 world cup)

France (1 world cup)
Brazil with 5 times.
Brazil has won the most times (five times)
Brazil (5 times)