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Football is a game where two teams of 11 Uruguay was the one who won the first world cup.
players try to hit the opponent's goal post. There At the first world cup, due to the financial crisis in
are strikers, midfielders, defenders, and a goalkeep- Uruguay, many people there were not able to see
er. Strikers' job is to score, midfielders' job is to try the world cup in the stadium. Today, after 21 mega
to pass to the striker, and defenders try to stop the events, Brazil is the most successful team with 5
opponent from coming near their post. Goalkeeper's world cup wins and Germany with 4 wins, and
job is important because they have to stop the op- Argentina with 3. European countries have the most
ponent from scoring. They can use any part of their successful wins of the 12 world cups. Brazilian player
body to save a shot, including their hands. There are Pele is the one who won three World cup wins for
also referees that make sure they play fair. Brazil whereas Maradona, Messi and the team have
Soccer, better known as football, is one of won 3 World cups for Argentina. However the coun-
the oldest sports in history. In 206 B.C., there are try that created football was Britain.
accounts of Chinese soldiers playing Tsuchu, which The first version of football was called Folk-
means kicking the ball in Chinese. While other an- ball, it involved punching the ball with your fist and
cient cultures also used to play with the ball, Tsuchu tackling the other opponent. Although it was also
was the first one not to allow hands. Goal posts were about kicking, it was far too violent. After getting
a net attached to two bamboo sticks. This quickly multiple injuries, the government banned it for
spread around the world. In 1863, official rules for centuries. Then the football association decided that
football were drawn up to create an organized game touching the ball with your hand would be illegal.
in England. These rules formally differentiated be- Soon, there were also events called the premier
tween rugby football and association football. Then, leagues and the UEFA champions league. This year,
modern football was born. Belgium, France, Holland, Argentina bagged the world cup 2022. It is interest-
Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland created ing to note that in every world cup the design of the
FIFA, the Federation of International Football Asso- ball changes.
ciation.
The first world cup game started in 1930 - Ranajaya Shrestha
when Uruguay hosted it. The surprising thing is that