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History of association football
The history of association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, stretches back to at least medieval times. FIFA cites Cuju in ancient China as the earliest form of a kicking game for which there is historical evidence, a military manual from the Han dynasty. Other ball games were played in ancient Japan, Greece, and Rome. The first written evidence of a football match came in England in about 1170. The development of association football has its origins in medieval ball games and English public school games. The modern game of association football originated in the mid-nineteenth century by the efforts of English football clubs to standardize the varying sets of football rules, culminating in the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in London, England, in 1863, and their issuing of the Laws of the Game in the same year. The "Laws of the Game" were later trusted to the International Football Association Board (IFAB) and then adopted by the International Association...
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