Talk:Football

Edit request on 5 February 2013

BlazedGuy123 (talk) 03:54, 5 February 2013 (UTC) Foot Ball is OVAL Patrick Star

Not done. What edit are you requesting? CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 07:55, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Modern ball passing tactics

The section "Modern ball passing tactics" is confusing starting with the title of the section. For which code of football are the activities described "modern ball passing tactics"? -- PBS (talk) 16:54, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

originally a sport for women in russia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luserface1 (talk • contribs) 17:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

American football

american football is a sport from america — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakecerrito (talk • contribs) 00:31, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

And? GordyB (talk) 14:04, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Ancient games

These games appear to have resembled rugby football.

notes

The sources given include some links an they do not support the the unequivocal statement made in the sentence. Indeed if as one source suggests that only hand were used then what is that game doing in this article?

Whoever added this sentence (or retained it) though it necessary to qualify it with four citations. This shows that it is contentious. How do the authors know that these ancient games resembles rugby more than say Ausi-rules? If the were closer to rugby that American football do the sources have details of the ball having to be passed backwards?

I think that the sentence should be removed as is a a synthesis of the sources. Indeed would probably be a good idea to remove most of the section they games mention have no links with the modern codes of football. -- PBS (talk) 10:52, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Football

Federation Football is the most widely played game around the world, not to be confused with Association Football which only a few limited countries still play(eg. America, Canada). Federation Football is not Soccer, only Association Football is also named Soccer as the term Soccer comes from the word Assoc short for Association.

101.172.255.223 (talk) 23:36, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia

Certain countries have football federations, see Category:UEFA member associations for some examples but they are the governing bodies for association football. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 11:29, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Origins of football

"On July 15, 2004, Mr. Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, declared to the world on the Third China International Football Exposition that football was originated from China; thus Linzi in Zibo of Shandong Province was officially recognized as the birthplace of football."

On 13 June 2008 FIFA are on record as declaring "...It was recently argued that a form of football, or "cuju", as it was named originated in the Shandong Province of Linzi during the West Han Dynasty. A primitive version of football existed in China centuries before it was modified and given rules by English scholars to become association football, as it is known today, in the mid-18th century." .

This claim has since been discredited. No evidence has ever been found to support an historical connection with the Association football the code of football administrated internationally by FIFA, any other modern code of football or any of the medieval football games played in Western Europe from which all modern codes evolved. FIFA have more recently played down their assertion now mealy claiming "scientific evidence" for Cuju being the oldest form of the game on their website. This is despite the Ancient Greek game of Episkyros referred to on this page recognised as an early form if football by FIFA being verifiably older! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrian Roebuck (talk • contribs) 13:06, 22 August 2013 (UTC)