The history of football - Summary on a Map

The history of football, from the first ball games until today.
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English translation & voiceover: Matthew Bates www.epicvoiceover.com/
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Original French version: • L'histoire du football...
Russian version: • Футбол - история на карте
Arabic version: • كرة القدم
Spanish version: • El fútbol - historia y...
Portuguese version (Brazil): • FUTEBOL: A história no...
Japanese version: • サッカーの歴史
Korean version: • 지도로 보는 축구의 역사 - 구기경기부터...
German version: • Die Geschichte des Fuß...
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Music: Illusions - Anno Domini Beats
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Software: Adobe After Effects
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Chapters
00:00 First ball games known
01:37 Birth of Football
03:48 World expansion
04:55 internationalization
07:03 The FIFA World Cup
08:32 Effervescence
10:32 The continental confederations
12:33 Tensions
14:30 The Football Business
16:19 New nations
18:22 Scandals
#geohistory #history #football #soccer #worldcup

[@GeoHistory]

Hello dear subscribers, let's retrace on a map the great historical steps that made football the most popular sport in the world. I hope you like it! If so, remember that you can support the channel by putting a like on the video and by sharing it. Cheers!

[@brianthehedgehog]

Maybe do Basketball sooner

[@jes3d]

ok

[@micoucovic8067]

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[@cloverfinderboygamer3573]

So the city is Kansas city for 2026? If so I don't need to be in a Hotel I love Missouri where I live

[@babaksard9622]

this is more like a European and american history of football. way to not see the "black and orientals"

[@joshmcdonald1141]

I love how you make sure to tie in all the historical factors at the time. The journey of this sport is really incredible

[@Justjdjd]

Definitely, insane how far it’s come.

[@98MAzdaMilleniaS]

OP didn’t title the video correctly. “The history of soccer.” FFS England had chance to prove usa wrong and that it’s not soccer, they couldn’t beat US 🤣🤣🤣

[@jinz0]

Thanks England for Creating the beautiful game

[@Jimjim226]

You’re not on Twitter fella

[@seyioyetade]

@@98MAzdaMilleniaS you also didn't beat England so what's Ur point?

[@theedgar1239]

Never expected Geo History to pull out a history documentary on Football.

[@ironkraken7157]

its called soccer

[@ironkraken7157]

its called soccer

[@ironkraken7157]

its called soccer

[@makingmemesat3AM]

@@ironkraken7157 it’s called football you nonce

[@makingmemesat3AM]

@@ironkraken7157 it’s called football you nonce

[@armandho]

The admin knows how to cash in on the craze of the world cup

[@cautarepvp2079]

He dam sure knows, i am waiting for Ad to finish while commenting, can't wait to see how this video presents the football.

[@AXELVISSERS]

It's nowhere near as popular as in 2018 tho. Qatar just fd it up.

[@DemonetisedZone]

The World Cup is not a 'craze' You make it sound like a fidget spinning contest😏

[@robertm.8653]

Wow, almost as if it's a good decision from a marketing point of view 😲

[@Spelunkid]

@@robertm.8653 no way 😮😮😮😮😮

[@cdsteig]

I feel like the Christmas Armistace could have been mentioned, but this was a great presentation.

[@Alagboriel]

Yes! The video started as history of football and suddenly became history of FIFA

[@domiiinik4320]

@@KeineAngst During World War I there was a 24 hour armistice during Christmas in 1914 and 2 teams consisting of opposing armies played match of football against each other

[@AteliusMapping]

@@KeineAngst I think it was the Germans and the British

[@AmazinglyAwkward]

Yeah, while as a rugby fan I actually appreciated how the difference between rugby and football came about (as many teams to this day are called, for example, Bristol RFU, meaning rugby football union) I'm really surprised Shrovetide, a game based on mob football that is still played in my home town of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England wasn't mentioned. It's one of, if not the only surviving type of this early type of football and is now called Royal Shrovetide after Prince (now King) Charles started the game on 2003!

[@rogink]

@@AmazinglyAwkward Yes, and isn't this the origin of the 'Derby' between two local teams?

[@_Wombat]

An interesting fact about 'Mob Football'. There is a town in England called Ashbourne (Derbyshire) where they still play this every year on Shrove Tuesday. It is called 'Shrovetide'. The people who live on the 'Upper' side of the river play against those who live on the 'Lower' side of the river. Uppers vs Downers. It gets quite serious - all of the shops board up their windows, for instance.

[@AmazinglyAwkward]

Damn, I knew I'd be beat to it! Lived in Ashbourne (for anyone outside of England Ashbourne is pretty much in the middle of the whole country, we're the furthest away from any coast) my whole life and yeah, it can get nasty, people have died iirc via crushing. The whole town is pretty much shut for two days while this game is played, the teams are called Uppards and Downards but other than that yeah spot on. The only other thing is it's now called Royal Shrovetide Football after Prince (now King) Charles threw the ball into the awaiting crowd (or mob if you prefer) in 2003

[@_Wombat]

@@AmazinglyAwkward ah my bad I had a feeling I'd got that wrong. I don't live in Ashbourne but it's my local town growing up. Never played in the game myself but still, it's probably about the most interesting thing about the place haha.

[@patrickchampion8179]

There's a very similar game still going in Sedgefield not that far from me

[@AmazinglyAwkward]

@@_Wombat no worries! Yeah I mean there's not much else the town has going for it other than it being on the edge of the Peak District as you know but Shrovetide has to be the most interesting event of the year!

[@rogink]

Yeah. Isn't this the origin of the term 'Derby' for a match between two local clubs?

[@The_Lovre]

Fun fact: First football in Croatia was from a British and French guy which were there to inspect harvesting of oak trees for wine barels

[@johnkelly1916]

Fun fact: Site your sources before making a false claim and calling it a fun fact

[@-xnnybimb-9398]

@@johnkelly1916 cite*

[@fourqdash]

@@johnkelly1916 chill for a min

[@johnkelly1916]

@@-xnnybimb-9398 thanks for the correction, I was in a haste with my reply and made a silly mistake. :)

[@johnkelly1916]

@@fourqdash it's an incorrect statement, so that's why I am calling it out

[@wiintxrss]

I’ve been watching Geo History as a study tool for my AP World History class, and was shocked to find out that they have made a video completely dedicated to Football. I’m thankful to them for putting in the key factors of history that went through the journey of this sport. It’s fun to see the sport of many cultures to be played world wide.

[@rj-vn4bu]

I have not thought about using these vids for ap world history. I definitely should though cuz I'm struggling

[@tibodeclercq2131]

What could have been mentioned aswell is the 1995 Bosman ruling. This transformed football in Europe and made money, agents and trasfers explode. That is also why no clubs from smaller countries can't make it far in the European cups any more.

[@domiiinik4320]

You made it look like it was a bad rule, but it was one of the best rules ever, this allows players to sign contracts earlier, when you have 6 months of contract with previous club and it prevents keeping player by force in club they don't want to play in

[@domiiinik4320]

@@KeineAngst bullshit, it saved careers of many players

[@user-dv1mf4tt6h]

@@KeineAngst bruh, if you want to make a point (no matter how inane it is), do some research. Or better yet, use some brain power. "Everyone goes everywhere"? You wanna shackle players to their home turf, robbing players from underdeveloped areas like Africa or South America of their chance to shine in Europe or what? I guess in your perfect world insanely talented but sickly Messi never accepted Barcelona's offer. Or Son Heung-min never became South Korea's idol and inspiration because he's rocking EPL. "Mass migration destroys national teams"? Facepalm for bozo. "i CanT iDEntIfY wiTh aNyTHinG". I identify you as an idiot. Or troll. Or something in between, I dunno. Yes there's monopolies and poaching (for example, Bayern's infamous for "stealing" all the best german players); yes rich clubs are feuding with UEFA over money (deeply unpoplar Super League) among many other issues. But globalization made football more accessible, more open, more agile. Soccer is about to replace american football as biggest sport in US; Africa and Asia keep churning out promising kids out of academies built for european money. P.S. Trent Alexander-Arnold. He's a scouzer playing for Scouzers. Insane how it goes, huh?)

[@kieronparr3403]

How do you equate the Bosman ruling with smaller clubs not being as competitive?

[@tibodeclercq2131]

@@kieronparr3403 Because before that clubs could receive transfer fees for players who were out of contract. So for example when your contract ended in 1992, clubs could still ask transfer fees, so even though it would take untill 1994 you could find a new club, the new club should always have to pay a transfer fee. This way small clubs were able to hold their talents and key players. That is why clubs from Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, Sweden, Greece, Austria, Yugoslavia .... could make it very far into European cups. If you look at the history of Europa Cup 1, Europa Cup 2 and the UEFA cup then you will see clubs from smaller countries often made it to the semi finals or even the final. And after 1995 that slowed down. That is why Red Star Belgrade, Bukarest, Ajax and PSV won the champions league in the past. Today they are nothing compared to the big leagues.

[@walterpiana7912]

Calcio Fiorentino (also known as calcio storico "historic football") is an early form of football (soccer and rugby) that originated during the Middle Ages in Italy.[1] Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. There it became known as the giuoco del calcio fiorentino ("Florentine kick game") or simply calcio, which is now also the name for association football in the Italian language. The game may have started as a revival of the Roman sport of harpastum.

[@m.dewylde5287]

Cool! Thank you!!

[@neurozee6598]

Right. Not mentioning calcio or the Aztec games is a serious omission.

[@user-xd5pr4qd4z]

Basically football started when someone anywhere in the world won a battle and thought it would be a fun idea to kick the head of their enemies leader in a mass free for all. This was such fun that almost every nation on earth had their own version of kick the head around. Thankfully they narrowed it down a little, civilised it (sort of) then wrote down 'these are the rules' one day after a few beers in a London pub between a bunch of drunken northern monkeys and hey presto... football is born. There. That's the entire history of football.

[@welshexile8505]

Just discovered the channel this morning and loving it. Really pleased you included the historical tie with rugby football and the fact that until the late 19th century this was a shared history, rather than the myth that rugby football just appeared as an offshoot of Association Football. Good work. Would love to see a video on the history of rugby… or maybe even Wales…😊

[@DieFlabbergast]

Who believes in or promotes this myth? I've never heard this before. If you're British, you'd have to be pretty stupid to believe such hogwash. Rugby Football, American Football, Australian Rules Football, and Gaelic Football (all "handling" codes) are just as much "football" as Association Football (aka soccer, which is what British people of all social classes called the sport up until the 1980s).

[@sebastianbate7835]

Uruguay being tiny in land and population but still managing to win 2 world cups, including a david vs goliath match in world cup final 1950 never ceases to amaze me

[@Yellowsnow69420]

“The first international game ends in a 0-0 draw” …what a surprise

[@jontalbot1]

Football is Englands gift to the world. The greatest sport ever invented, nothing else comes even close. I am 67 now and before l pop my clogs l plan to make a pilgrimage to football Mecca, Sheffield FC.

[@nathansellars3757]

@@stickynotemetagaming no its not

[@the_real_idoit8166]

@@nathansellars3757 it is lmao look at the numbers it beats every sport

[@sandrider1406]

Incorrect, Scotland has developed the game. We created football association by playing the worlds first international football game in Glasgow, Scotland. Football = Scotland

[@jontalbot1]

@@sandrider1406 Oh here we ago another ignorant nationalist who thinks anything about England is an opportunity to take his prejudices for a walk. The English FA was created in 1863; the SFA in 1890. The FA cup started in 1871, the international you refer to was in 1872. The game originated in English public schools not Scotland as you can easily discover for yourself.

[@sandrider1406]

@@jontalbot1 again showing your ignorance, go research again. Football was played in Scotland since the 15th, don’t believe me? Go look into the history Stirling Castle , us Scots we’re worldly and we brought back the game from our French brothers. Yes, got you. The english never created the game , it was always there you fool. To try and claim the game is absurd because we were all playing the game in some from for centuries. Sheffield you say, don’t make me and the rest of the world laugh 🤣🤣🤣

[@paul-martens]

This is probably one of the last long videos about world football history without a single mention of "Messi"

[@dpknesek]

And it's a glaring omission that it didn't. If it's going to mention Pele, Mardonna, Zidane, and Nemar, then it absolutely should have mentioned Messi.

[@protection4nature]

Thanks for this football episode. I've learned a lot of interesting about the past of football ⚽️. Hi from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿!

[@johnnyoranges]

Greetings from Scotland.

[@martincoronado5318]

It locate between Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and assholes Uzbekistan

[@sheffsteel7]

If you want to learn the true origins in detail check out the documentaries on the "Sheffield The Home of Football" channel, it's where the modern game with organised clubs, leagues, cups knockout, paying customers and professionalism started.

[@DJYoue]

Misses the 1833 first ever list of football rules from Scotland! The first written rules by a guy called John Hope in Edinburgh. Very important document in the history of the sport.

[@johnnyoranges]

Well said.

[@seyioyetade]

@@johnnyoranges he is Ur name sake 😊😊

[@johnnyoranges]

@@seyioyetade 😊😊

[@Andy-ko5eu]

As usual the facts are ignored and "England invented football" is the biggest myth in the game 😂

[@Luke_Sandy_High_Ground]

@@Andy-ko5euassociation football is English

[@dazpoz]

This is as good a history of football as you’re going to find in just 20 minutes.

[@walmars3curity]

Not at all. Barely mentioned club football at all. Its basically the history of the World Cup...

[@lordprefab5534]

No, it's very poor. No mention of the building of railways, mining and engineering projects worldwide spreading football around the globe.

[@walmars3curity]

@@lordprefab5534 They literally mentioned 2 football clubs in the whole video. It had some cool insight of the World Cup but gave about .002% of actual football history.

[@thomasmillward3671]

@@lordprefab5534 bruh the vide would be hours long if he included all that. So stop being annoying 🤦‍♂

[@lordprefab5534]

@@thomasmillward3671 wind your neck in son. It's supposed to be the history of football. Some of us actually know the history and were interested to see this take on the subject from the land of "Sacker".

[@ahmedharajli189]

Subscribed after the first 5 seconds. I thought it was a mistake that there was no introduction but nope, he just got straight to the point, respect

[@WorldXl_]

i love the amount of details and effort, i fell in love with history and culture due to this amazing game, just one thing Australia should be coloured with the asian countries after 2006 since they switched to the asian federation but great video!

[@JadF1729]

This is very nice. I love how he does other things.

[@rodrigonunez4375]

You missed "ball game" by the Mexicas, it was a very popular game here in Mexico and an important part of their culture

[@omessiasdogol]

Maybe your greatest video 👍🏻⚽ Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷 Long live the beautiful game!

[@piedrablanca1942]

Vammos Argentinaaaaaa

[@wobblybobengland]

Unlucky lads

[@omessiasdogol]

@@wobblybobengland This isn't ended yet. This has just begun

[@omessiasdogol]

@@wobblybobengland Told ya 😉🇦🇷 ⭐⭐⭐

[@kimberlysabillon3005]

@@omessiasdogol Queremos la TERCERA; Queremos ser Campeon MUNDIAL !

[@derin111]

It’s amazing how recent the modern game is really but how it grew so quickly to be such a Global phenomenon.

[@dand7763]

The first match of Romanian Football Federation (founded in 1909) was held in 1921. Yugoslavia - Romania 1-2 (match held in Belgrade) The FIRST club was FK Csikszereda in 1904 , but at the time Transylvania was part of Austro-Hungary Empire. the second club is one recognized nowadays - CFR Cluj, was founded in 1907.

[@thegarfield2414]

The first football club was in Timisoara and the first football match too.

[@PufikaHUN]

FC Csíkszereda 🇭🇺🇭🇺 Great football history neighbours and a good win against Yugoslavia

[@19MAD95]

One of my favorite fun facts is that as a result of the lost in the 1950 World Cup final match the Brazilian national team to this day refuses to wear white.

[@ric112]

You forgot to mention that Aston Villa founded the first football league by writing to 11 other clubs to form the competition in 1888

[@alaasadek173]

Masterpiece 🔥🔥

[@jucar29]

Hello, Did you know that the ancient Mayas played a ball game. I believe it was called Pitz. This game did not use hands and each team used a small ball where they tried to score in an opponents goal. Also considered an early ancestor of soccer.

[@hugo57k91]

Wasn't that played with elbows or did I confuse it with something else

[@Miniochoa341]

What is soccer

[@jrduez]

@@hugo57k91 if i remember right the hips and legs were used alot in the game the Maya played.

[@lostheir7988]

did u mean pok a tok

[@therealcanada123]

​@@Miniochoa341 soccer is what we call it here in america and canada and we have a diffrent sport called football

[@DemonetisedZone]

Up to 1860s the game was played by dribbling and by each player individually trying to get as far up the field as possible. It was at this point that passing was 'invented' in Glasgow, Scotland. They called it 'The Combination Game' and after Scotland repeatedly thrashed England many clubs in England would hire Scottish players

[@Fummy007]

Doubt

[@Ash-ve8hh]

source?

[@mynameisjoejeans]

Being that there were debates within the Sheffield rules committee in the 1860s over the offside rule, your assertion is clearly misinformed. Indirect free kicks existed from at least the 1850s too.

[@OblivionGate]

You've clearly made this story up, nowhere in history has Scotland repeatedly thrashed England and the rest of it is absolute bullshit.

[@nightowl3218]

Just false Scot pride bs

[@TheLmfaoperson]

1998 World Cup also saw the first time a Golden Goal was played in a world cup, it was during the France vs Paraguay Match. Paraguay at the brink of eliminating that year's WC winner.

[@Inuzumi]

I love your videos about war but this is a nice breath of fresh air.

[@hawx00145]

Would be cool if you could do a vid about the history of hand/gridiron football(Rugby,American,Canadian,Australian etc ruleset), after it split off from foot/pitch, association football...as well as the history of other sports. Also wonder if ppl tried to bring back the hybrid hand/foot versions as a casual thing like pickleball is to tennis.

[@mejsjalv]

Check out some Gaelic Football from Ireland. It's a good example of combining hands and feet. Quite an underrated sport!

[@corgg2]

Interesting to note, the first college American football game (1869, Rutgers v. Princeton) was played with association football rules. It was 4 years later when Harvard played McGill of Canada and adopted the Rugby football rules, thus beginning the development of American football. Association football has a longer history in the US than Rugby football. The USSF is older than the NFL and the US Open Cup up until 2020 was the third longest continuous football competition. Long history for football (aka soccer) in the US, just never became popular until of late.

[@merseydave1]

The English Upper Class brought the game of Rugby Union or as the used to say "Ragahh" to the U.S. and Canadian Colleges in the late 1800s ... You changed some of the rules of play and turned it into your Grid Iron game ... I have just given you a Factual account of what happened.

[@leefisher]

Very enjoyable. It would have been nice if it mentioned the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, which took place in Turin, Italy in 1909 and 1911, and was won by West Aukland on both occasions.

[@merseydave1]

A very valid point

[@Kamalean]

i like that you added animations as well

[@onufmi]

it was soo interesting to see how the game worked during world wars. I would love to see video about Formula 1 in the future

[@user-qw8hh7fj3w]

it will be very interesting if there are such clips for rugby and volleyball as well

[@pert-smith]

Technically, rugby is still football. The video diverges into solely Association Rules Football when the FA is introduced. Everything before that would be the beginning of a History of Rugby too.

[@anac7588]

Also, the greatest historical epic feat in the history of World Football🇺🇾: "the Maracanzo"...🏆

[@JESUS_IS_THE_KING602]

No it's not😂

[@yurigaviolis]

As a Brazilian I gotta say it's mythic by Uruguayans side. A tiny country 3 million people against a huge colosso like Brazil, inside an arena crowded by 200k. I've always respected the Uruguays. They got the biggest balls in the world, greetings from a Gaucho.

[@anac7588]

@@yurigaviolis Of course, for a Brazilian it wasn't mythical! They were the ones who lost 😂 (Look on KZbin for the preview of that match and how the FIFA authorities enter the field with both teams and how there is no shame when they say to the microphone: "now the Brazilians are going to be world-champions", totally underestimating the opponent... And then the sepulchral silence... It was epic... Brazil even changed the color of the t-shirt because of the trauma! There's Nothing's wrong with accepting that... it is not gonna change Brazil later awesomeness or anything, but facts are facts...) A big hug from Uruguay, and if you're a gaúcho from Rio Grande do Sul, then you were also Oriental back in the day 🇺🇾... You used to respond to the leadership of Father Artigas, we were the same thing🩵🫂🧉👍

[@yurigaviolis]

@@anac7588 you miss understood what I said. I stated it was mythical what you guys accomplished back there, recognising Uruguay bravery and qualities. And yeah, Im gaucho and we have many similarities.

[@blab1265]

​@@yurigaviolisAhh ok, big hug from 🇺🇾 🫂😘

[@luxford60]

"Mob football" is a retrospective name for what would have just been called football at the time, or else a specific name for that particular village's game. The word mob was added after the more organused forms of the game had been established. The originators of the codified gane were schools rather universities. Obviously the Cambridge rules are named after the university, but it was students who had played different rules at their schools who created these rules. The game is Association Football, rather tvan Football Association, which is the name if the organisation. Several clubs played Sheffield Rules, and the first game between teams from different clubs was under those rules, between Sheffield FC and Hallam FC.

[@pert-smith]

Yuletide Football is more fitting as it was often a Christmas tradition. I do believe a true History of Football would also consider Rugby Rules, American Rules, Aussie Rules, and Gaelic Rules. This is truly just a history of Men's Association Football.

[@Wallydaft]

Ebenezer Cobb Morley (16 August 1831 - 20 November 1924) was an English sportsman. He is regarded as the father of the Football Association (FA) and modern football. He wrote the first set of rules for the game of football. He was from the same city as me.

[@sheffsteel7]

There was organised football, with 49 clubs, leagues, cup competitions, paying customers playing a game very similar to the modern game that we know now being played in Sheffield up to 10 years before the FA was even formed. Delegates from the Sheffield league travelled to London to speak with Ebenezer Morley to formalise the sport. Most of the Sheffield rules were amalgamated into the FA rules. The early cup competitions in Sheffield (The Yourdan Cup and the Cromwell Cup) were the inspiration for the FA to come up with the idea of the FA cup and it was a factory in Sheffield that made the 1st FA cup.

[@lilrestart]

“Pele,Who would come to one of the greatest footballers in history.” I miss Pele 😢

[@MokuTom]

what are you talkin about, you weren't even alive when he was playing..

[@dave_dynasty]

Great video. I would lime to see something like this for basketball or other sports.

[@TheSaneDuck315]

this is actually so easy to follow and understand. I love it

[@galnhus56]

Post script: In 2022 Qatar, Messi leads Argentina over France on penalty kicks after what some consider to be the "greatest World Cup final ever".

[@RealAthrey]

Yesssir 🎉

[@willeyshelton7452]

While I was studying today, I suddenly realised while I go all gaga over football, I don't really know the backstory of it and that's how I came across this video. Thank you so much from many youngsters like me for this video. I'll make sure to share it with my friends in the NYXS community because I want others to know as well.

[@kyawnyuntlinn6487]

The record amount in the history in 1982 was roughly 7 million euros. I can imagine how things are happening nowadays. :)

[@mejsjalv]

Not even adjusting the amount for inflation, because football moves truckloads of money, much more so than in the 80's. It's about 21 million in 2022 dollars, which is a far cry from the most expensive transfers of the past few years, like Neymar for €222 million or Mbappe for €145 million. Some pro footballers nowadays are rich beyond normal comprehension. I mean, Maradona was rich but humanly comprehensible. Messi is wealthy.

[@rogink]

@@mejsjalv Neymar rolls around for a living, Mbappe scores goals. It's hard to say which is worth more...

[@mejsjalv]

@@rogink I'm not even a bad amateur footballer. But I really cannot comprehend the amounts of money they make in uch a short time. Paul Mc Cartney and Mick Jagger became multimillionaires over 5 decades of a rock star career. Football star make way more money than music or movie stars.

[@rogink]

@@mejsjalv Playing devil's advocate - a good musician or actor can keep going for 40-50 years if they want to. A star footballer has 15-20 years max. And it's only in the last 20 odd years that players have made such astronomical wages. Are they worth it? If clubs are prepared to pay it, then yes.

[@jarzhinio]

I used to play for an amateur team in London that was founded in 1907. They still have the same colours and crest and the same ground and club house with all their records and trophies and club captains etc. They used to play in the old FA cup when it was for amateur teams only. The SAL is the league they play in and its one of the oldest amateur league in world football. Ipswich Town used to play in the SAL before they became a professional club. There are still a few of the clubs which originally formed the SAL still going. Especially the ones linked to sports clubs which had rowing, cricket and rugby teams attached. Often these were run by wealthy institutions and were for employees of the companies or societies that ran them. It was brilliant to play in this league because some of the grounds and club houses were like museums and often they had sports centres attached or nearby, some of these clubs had 9 teams! That's 15 players at least in each team, and they had veterans teams too for over 45s 50s. It was great except finding your way around London to get to some of these grounds on a Saturday morning with TFL industrial action and traffic for the various professional football events was a ruddy nightmare (there are litterally hundreds of amateur clubs in london, maybe over 1000 pitches)

[@sarantis1995]

I just watched this video last night , recommended by the algorithm on my feed and walking up today I learned the news. RIP Edson Arantes do Nascimento‎, RIP Pelé!!!

[@tick999]

Very nicely done. I was thinking, 'You'd better mentions Sheffield' 😁👍

[@rohnnyjotten3985]

.....the 2nd football club, first was in edinburgh, recently proven by the finding of their accounts..

[@gardenshed6043]

If I remember right, Henry VIII had to ban football briefly because too many young men were needlessly dying in it for him to conscript enough soldiers for war.

[@luxford60]

Several English kings banned football, but less because people were dying and more because if they were playing football then they weren't practicing archery, and archets were needed for war.

[@jinz0]

Henry VIII was a legend, he had a song made called greensleeves which is about one of his wives anne bolyn

[@johnnyoranges]

It certainly wasn't soccer football, but more probably a cross between rugby and UFC.

[@lordprotector3367]

Technically, it's still illegal not to practice archery on a sunday in the UK.

[@pert-smith]

@@luxford60 What Henry VIII banned was what the video refers to as "Mob Football." Also known as Yuletide Football, it was played mainly during the Christmas season. As Britain was beginning to industrialise, the game was interfering with business (many shop's windows were broken during the games and workers would experience brutal injuries). Legend has it that when the Riot Act was read at Hampton Court, it could not be enforced as the police officers were playing the game themselves.

[@kunalsinghal2681]

Make more of these sports historical timeline videos. Enjoyed this one

[@MegaEZC]

⭐️Awesome job!!⭐️

[@lowellfinn]

This is unique!

[@salt1956]

I learned a lot from this video. Thank you.

[@loduca16]

This is a fantastic video and zero mispronunciations that I noticed

[@pix-can-fix643]

Oh man the animations have became 100 times more advanced since last video

[@foivosarvanitis776]

My favourite channel makes a video about my favourite sport. How can I not watch it???

[@nialldean9791]

1930 Montevideo: Uruguay 🇺🇾 1934 Rome: Italy 🇮🇹 1938 Paris: Italy 🇮🇹 1950 Rio de Janeiro: Uruguay 🇺🇾 1954 Bern: ~West~ Germany 🇩🇪 1958 Stockholm: Brazil 🇧🇷 1962 Santiago: Brazil 🇧🇷 1966 London: England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1970 Mexico City: Brazil 🇧🇷 1974 Munich: ~West~ Germany 🇩🇪 1978 Buenos Aires: Argentina 🇦🇷 1982 Madrid: Italy 🇮🇹 1986 Mexico City: Argentina 🇦🇷 1990 Rome: ~West~ Germany 🇩🇪 1994 Los Angeles: Brazil 🇧🇷 1998 Paris: France 🇨🇵 2002 Tokyo: Brazil 🇧🇷 2006 Berlin: Italy 🇮🇹 2010 Johannesburg: Spain 🇪🇸 2014 Rio de Janeiro: Germany 🇩🇪 2018 Moscow: France 🇨🇵

[@MiroHeinonen]

2022 Doha: ??? We'll know on 18 December...

[@god6326]

Portugal 2022 🇵🇹

[@arta.xshaca]

@@god6326 Let's see

[@licenciado_irl]

Yo pense que decias sobre en que pais se hizo el mundial, pero me di cuenta despúes que eran los ganadores de los mundiales.

[@TheElectroboy09]

2022: Argentina 🇦🇷

[@richl6966]

I love football and hate ill informed stuff about it. This was actually quite factual and useful. Thanks.

[@pert-smith]

It left out quite a bit to be honest. It was a nice background, but left out a lot of key issues. For instance, women's football is hardly considered at all in the video. It's primarily a video on men's football. Also, the other versions of football still exist. Rugby Rules Football is a popular sport. We just call it Rugby. At the same time as this split, American universities faced the same problem, leading to the development of American Rules Football. Canada, Australia, and Ireland to name a few also developed their own versions of football. I think the video does a disservice to that in only considering Association Rules Football as the only version of the sport. In reality, the video serves as a pretty decent crash course on the history of men's association football, but is quite ill-informed, in my opinion, in its neglect of the aforementioned.

[@Cronkna]

Great attention to detail with the Aral Sea shrinking

[@MegaWunna]

Rugby and football/soccer having the same roots is a very interesting fact. Thanks for this fact.

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

That's why lots of rugby clubs still end in "FC" for football club

[@temporaryuseraccount0012]

When the split into two individual and separate sports happened, North America never got the memo (or should that be 'telegram'?) And so have mistakenly continued to call their American version of "rugby," as 'football' ever since. Which also then trapped them in a corner as to what to name the actual sport the rest of the world calls "Football", wherein the players use their "foot" to kick the "ball", and so Americans ended up calling that "soccer" instead.

[@forkyicicle8904]

No "mistakenly" in it. Soccer is only called football in the rest of the world because that's the only code they play. In the English speaking world where the other codes (American, Canadian, Aussie rules, Gaelic, Rugby Union, Rugby League etc.) are played, football refers to the most popular code in the local area - not just association football i.e. soccer. Football has nothing to do with kicking spheres with the feet - a very recent innovation in the history of football - but rather playing with a ball on your feet. All codes do this and they all have a common origin. To say that only one form has the right to call themselves football reeks of arrogance and ignorance, especially when it is the furthest from the original sport.

[@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020]

Good video but just to correct you- it is not commonly known as football or soccer, it’s commonly known just as football. That 1% of the world calls it soccer is up to them but it is not commonly known as such. Also, the game didn’t start out with the name of association football, its original name given was just football. The association part was added much later to distinguish between this and rugby. It was quickly dropped in favor of just calling it football and that is the name to this day.

[@SteveThePster]

Great video... but you could/should have mentioned: - 1914: WW1 Xmas Truce - 1960 (I think): Formation of the European Championship - 1992: Introduction of backpass rule and subsequent impact of this on the explosion of popularity of the game - 90s: Formation of Champions League, English Premier League and subsequent globalisation of football, and the explosion of transfer fees and TV deals - 2008-12: A bit more about the sensational Spanish team and 'Tika-Taka' - 2020: Impact of the Covid Pandemic on football over 2020 and 2021

[@ngaishing]

Great video 👏🏻🔥

[@antonsmith]

2015 FIFA corruption case, You left that out!

[@omessiasdogol]

Technically he was talking about it when he narrated the suspicions of corruption within Russia's and Qatar's election to host the 2018 and 2022 WC respectively.

[@kiambotebbonikay]

Me: I need to fix my life. Where do I start? Geo History: We Start around the first century BC

[@AXELVISSERS]

Nice video, greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪

[@iliasmastoris529]

A couple of errors. Britain had been exporting 'football' to its colonies long before the formation of the FA. For example, the Melbourne Football Club founded in 1858 (the year after Sheffield and still the oldest active club). George Washington is said to have played a version of football, closely related to Rugby, that went onto become the NFL. In the English-speaking world (US, Canada, NZ, Australia and the UK), Association Football was colloquially called soccer simply because the Press abbreviated the name to "Assoc. Football". (Similarly, Rugby was nicknamed Rugger).

[@giorgawpin]

Sheffield FC, the worlds oldest club, is still active.

[@brankobelfranin8815]

The Mesoamerican ball game is a sport that people in Mesoamerica have played since about 1,400 B.C.E. It was the first team sport in history, as far as historians know. The Olmecs, who lived from 1,200 B.C.E. to 400 B.C.E., played the Mesoamerican ballgame.

[@lordprotector3367]

BCE?

[@Ula5216]

Omission of ball game played outside Western civilization is telling. Are other videos in this channel so Western centric? btw. I am myself European and I don't like that bias.

[@RealMattHaney]

What a great summarization. Though it feels like an opportunity was missed to mention branch-offs like American football and Aussie rules football (even to less of an extent vs rugby), since these are continually criticized for their name, which derives from the same as association football-and to state the winner of the West Germany vs East Germany match! Also to mention the derivation of the word soccer! But overall a nice history and enjoyable video. Particularly liked the ancient history.

[@DieFlabbergast]

They are NOT "branch-offs": they are equally descended from the same ancestral "county games" that Association Football (aka soccer) is descended from. Aussie Rules (along with Gaelic Football) is probably closer to the original game rules than either rugby or American Football.

[@RealMattHaney]

@@DieFlabbergast so descended from the same roots…like mob football.

[@siobhanahbois]

Stating the winner is redundant since only one of them made it to the finals in (1974)

[@hart-of-gold]

@@RealMattHaney The Melbourne Football Club (Australia) was founded about a year after the Sheffield club with similar rules. Both allowed catching the ball in hand, but no running with the ball, or throwing the ball. Games probably looked more like a game of Gaelic football than either soccer or aussie rules. Gridiron football (both American and Canadian) is Rugby derived with the first major difference being after a tackle, play restarted from a set play called a scrimmage, slowing play down. Rugby League formed from an amateur/professional split and after a tackle, there is a play-the-ball (quick mini ruck), speeding play up. All codes are called football because all are derived from school (or club) rule sets (codes) back in the day. Whichever code is most popular in a region will be called football there. Where I am, Rugby League is football.

[@J___Valentina___j]

​@@RealMattHaneythats not football its rugby

[@WhoIsCalli]

Very good, thanks for this!

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

Well this is geopolitically topical (I think the animation of the World Cup Final scores occurring in order is very cute)

[@ChristianYoga]

Still proud that Indonesia is the first Asian country to participate in World cup, though under Dutch Indies name...

[@waso778]

If your country still Dutch. Ohhhh you will be not so poor lol

[@owenklein1917]

I find it super interesting how much FIFA and geopolitics are intertwined.

[@jbach2002]

An interesting thing with the split from what became rugby. After the split, there were groups in England who kept referring to rugby as football and then ⚽️ they started calling soccer as an abbreviation of association football. Then many of them immigrated to the US and introduced ⚽️ and they also brought rugby which they called football which then evolved into American football. It’s the fault of the English that we Americans call 🏈 football and ⚽️ soccer.

[@discorddev316]

Now argentina beat france 3-3 with penalty shots 4-2

[@juampinarbondo]

robbery of the century

[@alicemendez9660]

England has really created the best sports

[@Footballmad11]

Yeah cus im from England but we have

[@evazheng3680]

Technically China created it

[@charlotteogden1970]

Yeah we have

[@Ronaldo_is_the_G.O.A.T_7]

True

[@afrojack7755]

Cricket and football

[@christiangaligao8750]

Thank you Geo history

[@ishtiaqali2373]

Great informative channel

[@SW-ok8qr]

Love the way it completely ignores Irish independence in 1922, preceding Civil War, the creation of the Football Association of Ireland and the Irish Football Association. Also didnt knoe Ireland is British.. 😂😂

[@m.dewylde5287]

Who TF cares about irelandia?

[@gheddafiduck8239]

Harpastum is STILL played in Florence, but they call it Calcio Storico and it’s extremely violent

[@markfaz8689]

Awesome video 👍 Very entertaining, I have more knowledge of the history of football now ⚽ Thanks.

[@RandomnessTube.]

Missed out on a lot of things but still interesting crazy to think Brazil and Germany have only played each other once in a final.

[@tagreen1235]

A bit of addition here the the ‘fa’ wasn’t created by a group of London clubs it was created by a group of clubs from across England namely stoke ( now stoke city fc) and the meeting took place in London

[@princeofchetarria5375]

Wish you’d talked about the European super league controversy! 😅

[@estudiantes68]

It's interesting how history changes according to the narrator. Since this is an English view of history, a lot of effort is put to make Argentina appear as a cheater, but nothing is said about the PHANTOM GOAL of England against Germany in 1966. The ball never crossed the line, but, since the World Cup was organized by England, the referee conceeded a goal to them. The most obscure episode, however, was how the organization excluded Argentina from the final, with Rattin's expulsion.

[@JamesL42]

Stay mad the Falklands will always be British

[@danubius21]

Amazing video!❤️

[@AmazinglyAwkward]

Just wanted to quickly mention Shrovetide, a form of medieval mob football that is still played to this day (minus 2020 and 2021 for obvious reasons) in my hometown of Ashbourne, which is pretty much in the middle of England. The ball is thrown in the air to the awaiting crowd (or mob) in the town center and the goal is to kick, throw, carry and run or, as has happened in some cases although this is frowned upon, drive with the ball to two goals, each goal being a few miles out of town, one goal is above the river that runs through town, the other is below the river, giving name to the two teams Uppards and Downards (what team you support is based on if you were born somewhere that is above or below this river). It was given the title Royal Shrovetide Football after Prince (now King) Charles threw the ball in 2003!

[@vukvidanovic8276]

Do people still get hurt?

[@AmazinglyAwkward]

@@vukvidanovic8276 oh absolutely, I wouldn't say brawls still happen (although isolated incidents still happen) but one particularly bad Shrovetide someone got shoved into the railing by the main bridge in town that goes over the river and got impaled and people have died from crushing before. I also got involved once as a teen thinking I was brave (bear in mind there's usually around 100-200 people trying to get hold of the ball before one runner gets hold of it and legs it) and I got shoved on to the floor, bringing a few people down with me as we were all shoving and I got semi crushed and I remember thinking I was going to die. Luckily everyone around me knew the dangers so we're really quick in helping to get everyone that had fell back on their feet

[@pert-smith]

I almost went for it last year but didn't get the chance. Actually couldn't go because I was busy writing a paper on Shrovetide Football for my uni. It looks like a right time though. Please, would you recommend it for a foreigner from the US who is looking for some fun. I've been in the UK for some time so I wouldn't stand out completely as the clueless American, but I'm also clearly not a member of the regular crowd.

[@AmazinglyAwkward]

@@pert-smith as long as you pick a side and you're physically fit that's fine! If you actually want to get involved in the "scrum" or "huddle" you have to be quite physical and you'll get shoved and pulled but if it gets too much you just have to squeeze your way out of all the muscular bodies lol but if you just want to follow the ball and the "scrum/huddle" then as long as you're happy doing a bit of hiking along muddy fields/you're fit enough to do that then you'll be fine!

[@robindejong8079]

“While the Netherlands loses it’s third final” We know, it hurts 🥺

[@arjannete]

Holy shit de jong the footballer?!

[@josephstanton4872]

It wasn't called the FIFA World Cup at start! Frenchman Jules Rimet thought up the tournament and the name stuck until 1974 when the new name had to be found after the trophy changed when Brazil got to keep the original after being the first country to win it 3 times! The new trophy would be bigger and heavier and made of solid gold!

[@dylanbreedveld9933]

Great vid!!!

[@clydesideproductions]

You are missing 1867 when Queen's Park FC was formed in Glasgow, who pioneered the passing game that people recognise as football today. They also went on to help found the SFA; every player who played that first game against England was from Queen's Park.

[@walmars3curity]

Missing about 99%. of actual football history lmao

[@paulies5407]

Only claim of glory jocks will ever have involving football

[@CalumOH]

@@paulies5407 It was "jocks" that first brought the big cup to British shores. Celtics Lisbon lions, all from Glasgow, became the first non-latin European champions.

[@rohnnyjotten3985]

@@paulies5407 we added passing, frre kicks, penaltys and the crossbar, all added to the rules by queens park football club in glasgow. first football club was in edinburgh not sheffield, its just been proved by the finding of the accounts that predate sheffield. get a clue.

[@lorddoofenshmirtz9100]

​@@rohnnyjotten3985penalties are irish

[@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687]

India, Pakistan and Philippines: *We don’t do that here*

[@komododragon410]

🏏 forever 💪

[@angeldominguez4610]

Fuck cricket that why football is worldwide

[@Nommswey]

Mayans and Aztecs played the game of the ball, literally translation, and it was a team of up to 6/7 hitting the ball into a small raised hoop like hole with their hips. That another early form of football

[@Ula5216]

the channel is biased. Any true fan of football heard about Mayans and Aztecs playing it. It's quite amateurish video.

[@dylanmcadam8509]

I can’t believe how much of footballs history is so recent

[@Ajet_]

As a Croat the 2018 loss still saddens my soul

[@joshhulst3929]

I remember wanting you guys to win so badly. Good luck this tournament from the US!

[@MagicMike_101]

XD France is a juggernault team. Croatia isn't. Sorry for you.

[@samlewis5171]

I mean, they got very lucky to get through the semi-final, Mandzukic should have been sent off for diving before he scored, and also Kane should have squared the ball

[@laughterhappiness5436]

Cry more 🤣

[@bubblesxd]

Respect for calling it Footballs and not Soccer 👍

[@PeterNjeim]

You're misinformed. "Soccer" is not an insulting term, it was invented in the UK due to the trend of taking the first 3 letters of a word and adding "er" to the end to shorten it. "Association Football" was to be shortened, but the term "Asser" was rejected, so they instead moved forward a letter, "Ssoer", which was also awkward, so they went forward another letter, "Socer", and this time they added another C in the middle to change the pronunciation, "Soccer". There's nothing disrespectful about calling football soccer, especially here in North America where that term is used for multiple sports. You've been lied to about that term, it's perfectly respectful.

[@Clery75019]

The channel is not American (it's French). That probably explains why the sport is called football in the video.

[@korakys]

It used to be that the two codes were nicknamed "rugger" (rugby) and "soccer", but later rugger fell out of use along with most other -er suffixed words. Soccer stayed because it provides a useful function in differentiating the many varieties of football.

[@jonpetter8921]

This is european channel though. No need to use socer

[@M_gs.]

Perfect, this video! 👏👏👏👏

[@lynxraide]

One slight error: on the map you have Australia coloured blue for OFC, but from 2010 onwards they are in the AFC, so should really be coloured red to match

[@Ula5216]

Maybe channel is made by American. No Messi, no ball games from other cultures than West mentioned.

[@FilosofiaDeJuegos]

Remember that this video is seen by people all over the world, not just North America or Australia. That's why it says "Football", instead of Soccer.