Adidas Soccer Uniforms and Accessories

The Chinese played “football” games as far back as 3,000 years ago. But it was in England that soccer really began to take shape. It all started in 1862 in England when two football associations (association football and rugby football) split off on their different courses. Therefore, the first Fooball Association was founded in England. On October 1863, eleven London clubs and schools sent their representatives to the Freemason’s Tavern. This meeting marked the birth of The Football Association.

Only eight years after its foundation, The Football Association already had 50 member clubs. The first international match was played in 1872 and was contested by England and Scotland. Two Darwin players, John Love and Fergus Suter are reported as being the first players ever to receive renumeration for theri football talent.

The next member clubs are the Scottish FA (1873), the FA of Wales (1875) and the Irish FA (1880), Netherlands and Denmark (1889), New Zealand (1891), Argentina (1893), Chile (1895), Switzerland (1895), Belgium (1895), Italy (1898), Germany (1900), Uruguay (1900), Hungary (1901) and Finland (1907). When FIFA was founded in Paris in May 1904, it had seven founding members: France, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Spain (reprresented by the Madrid FC), Sweden and Switzerland.

In 1912, 21 national associations were already affiliated to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). At present, after the 2000 Ordinary FIFA Congress, FIFA has 204 members in every part of the world.

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