Football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with a foot to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears. Sports commonly called football in certain places include: association football (known as soccer in some countries); gridiron football (specifically American football
American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby football (either rugby league or rugby union); and Gaelic football.[1][2] These different variations of football are known as football codes. Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games
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Football
Football is a family of sports that involve kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. Football
Football may also refer to:Contents1 Sport 2 Entertainment 3 Other uses 4 See alsoSport[edit]Association football, or so
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Harpastum, also known as harpustum, was a form of ball game played in the Roman Empire. The Romans also referred to it as the small ball game. The ball used was small (not as large as a follis, paganica, or football-sized ball) and hard, probably about the size and solidity of a softball. The word harpastum is the latinisation of the Greek ἁρπαστόν (harpaston),[1] the neuter of ἁρπαστός (harpastos), "carried away",[2] from the verb ἁρπάζω (harpazo), "to seize, to snatch".[3] This game was apparently a romanized version of a Greek game called phaininda (Greek: φαινίνδα[4]), or of another Greek game called ἐπίσκυρος (episkyros).[5][6][7][8][9][10] It involved considerable speed, agility and physical exertion. Little is known about the exact rules of the game, but sources indicate the game was a violent one with players often ending up on the ground
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The Yuan dynasty
Yuan dynasty (/juːˈɑːn/;[4] Chinese: 元朝; pinyin: Yuán Cháo), officially the Great Yuan[5] (Chinese: 大元; pinyin: Dà Yuán; Yehe Yuan Ulus[b]), was the empire or ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan, leader of the Mongolian Borjigin
Borjigin clan. It followed the Song dynasty
Song dynasty and was succeeded by the Ming dynasty. Although the Mongols
Mongols had ruled territories including modern-day North China
China for decades, it was not until 1271 that Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan officially proclaimed the dynasty in the traditional Chinese style,[6] and the conquest was not complete until 1279
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Qian Xuan
Qian Xuan (simplified Chinese: 钱选; traditional Chinese: 錢選; pinyin: Qián Xuǎn; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien Hsüan; 1235-1305) courtesy name Shun Ju (舜举), pseudonyms Yu Tan (玉潭, "Jade Pool"), Xi Lan Weng (习嬾翁), and Zha Chuan Weng (霅川翁) was a Chinese painter from Hu Zhou (湖州) (present day Wuxing District
Wuxing District in Zhejiang)[1] during the late Song dynasty
Song dynasty and early Yuan dynasty
Yuan dynasty era.Contents1 Biography 2 Notes 3 References 4 External linksBiography[edit] He started as an aspiring scholar-official during the Southern Song. He had difficulty climbing the ranks of officialdom and when the Mongol-founded Yuan Dynasty
Yuan Dynasty took over the southern regions of China in 1276 he effectively gave up on the idea
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International
International Olympic Committee International
International Football
Football Association BoardStaff103Website www.fifa.comThe Fédération Internationale de Football
Football Association (FIFA /ˈfiːfə/ FEEF-ə; French for " International
International Federation of Association Football") is an association which describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer. FIFA
FIFA is responsible for the organization of football's major international tournaments, notably the World Cup which commenced in 1930 and the Women's World Cup which commenced in 1991. FIFA
FIFA was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland
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Coordinates: 34°09′21″N 108°56′47″E / 34.15583°N 108.94639°E / 34.15583; 108.94639Han dynasty漢朝206 BC–220 ADA map of the Western Han
Western Han Dynasty in 2 AD: 1) the territory shaded in dark blue represents the principalities and centrally-administered commanderies of the Han Empire; 2) the light blue area shows the extent of the Tarim Basin
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Kemari
Kemari (Japanese: 蹴鞠) is a ball game that was popular in Japan during the Heian Period. Kemari
Kemari has been revived in modern times.Contents1 History 2 Description 3 See also 4 ReferencesHistory[edit] The first evidence of kemari is from 644 AD.[1] The rules were standardized from the 13th century.[1] The game was influenced by the Chinese sport of Cuju.[2] The characters for Kemari
Kemari are the same as Cuju
Cuju in Chinese. The sport was introduced to Japan
Japan about 600, during the Asuka period. Nowadays, it is played in Shinto shrines for festivals.[2] George H. W. Bush
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The Asuka period
Asuka period (飛鳥時代, Asuka jidai) was a period in the history of Japan
Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645), although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun
Kofun period. The Yamato polity evolved greatly during the Asuka period, which is named after the Asuka region, about 25 km south of the modern city of Nara. The Asuka period
Asuka period is characterized by its significant artistic, social, and political transformations, having their origins in the late Kofun period but largely affected by the arrival of Buddhism
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Buddhism from China. The introduction of Buddhism
Buddhism marked a change in Japanese society
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Kyoto
Kyoto (京都市, Kyōto-shi, pronounced [kʲoːꜜto] ( listen), pronounced [kʲoːtoꜜɕi] ( listen); UK: /kɪˈoʊtoʊ/, US: /kiˈoʊ-/, or /ˈkjoʊ-/[4]) is a city located in the central part of the island of Honshu, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million
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Keepie uppie, keepie-ups or kick-ups is the skill of juggling with an association football ball using feet, lower legs, knees, chest, shoulders, and head, without allowing the ball to hit the ground.[1] It is similar to Kemari, a game formerly practiced in the Japanese imperial court.Contents1 Notable performances and records1.1 Longest keepie-uppie 1.2 Fastest marathon while doing keepie-uppie 1.3 Longest distance walked while doing keepie-uppie 1.4 Longest keepie-uppie while on one's back 1.5 Most touches overall 1.6 Most touches in 60 seconds2 Anecdotes 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksNotable performances and records[edit] Here is an incomplete list of keepie-uppie performances. Longest keepie-uppie[edit]The men's record is held by Dan Magness of England, a 25-year-old professional freestyler, who kept a regulation football aloft for 26 hours using just his feet, legs, shoulders and head; he completed the feat, whic
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Ancient Greece
Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages
Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages
Middle Ages and the Byzantine
Byzantine era.[1] Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse
Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the period of Archaic Greece
Archaic Greece and colonization of the Mediterranean Basin. This was followed by the period of Classical Greece, an era that began with the Greco-Persian Wars, lasting from the 5th to 4th centuries BC
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In historiography, ancient Rome
Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome
Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic
Roman Republic and Roman Empire
Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.[1] The term is sometimes used to just refer to the kingdom and republic periods, excluding the subsequent empire.[2] The civilization began as an Italic settlement in the Italian peninsula, dating from the 8th century BC, that grew into the city of Rome
Rome and which subsequently gave its name to the empire over which it ruled and to the widespread civilisation the empire developed
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Episkyros
Episkyros (Greek: ἐπίσκυρος; also called ἐπίκοινος epikoinos, "commonball")[2][3] was an ancient Greek ball game. Highly teamwork oriented,[4] the game was played between two teams of usually 12 to 14 players each, with one ball and the rules of the game which allowed using hands. Although it was a ball game, it was violent, at least in Sparta.[5] The teams would try to throw the ball over the heads of the other team. There was a white line called the skuros[4] between the teams and another white line behind each team. Teams would change the ball often until one of the team was forced behind the line at their end. In Sparta
Sparta a form of episkyros was played during an annual city festival that included five teams of 14 players.[6][7][8][9][10] It was played primarily by men but women also practiced it
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Emperor Taizu of Song
Emperor Taizu of Song (21 March 927[2] – 14 November 976)[3] personal name Zhao Kuangyin, courtesy name Yuanlang, was the founder and first emperor of the Song dynasty
Song dynasty in China. He reigned from 960 until his death in 976. Formerly a distinguished military general of the Later Zhou
Later Zhou dynasty, Emperor Taizu came to power after staging a coup d'état and forcing Emperor Gong, the last Later Zhou
Later Zhou ruler, to abdicate the throne in his favour. During his reign, Emperor Taizu conquered the states of Southern Tang, Later Shu, Southern Han
Southern Han and Jingnan, thus reunifying most of China proper and effectively ending the tumultuous Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
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Antiphanes of Berge (or Antiphanes the Younger, Greek: Ἀντιφάνης ὁ Βεργαῖος, 4th century BC) of Berge, a town near Amphipolis, was a Greek writer of the book Ἄπιστα (Apista; "Unbelievable Things"). Strabo[1] mentions him as an impostor, because Antiphanes wished the reader to believe everything in his book, which actually contained falsehoods. It was due to Antiphanes, who lived in Athens, that the Attic verb βεργαΐζειν (bergaizein) was used in the sense of telling unbelievable stories. He also wrote a work on courtesans. He is not to be confused with Antiphanes of Argos, as was done with some ancient writers. Notes[edit]^ i. p. 47, ii. pp. 102, 104; comp. Polyb. xx xiii. 12References[edit]Antiphanes of Berge, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.This article about an Ancient Greek writer or poet is a stub
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