Football

Cricket is not a code of football.

Gaelic football involves primarily kicking the ball.

Traditional ball games were codified at English public schools during the 19th century.

The Football League was founded in England in 1888 and was the first of many professional football associations

Passing and tackling are common skills in most codes of football.

Usually, there are between 11 and 18 players on each team in football.

Explanation: The aim of football is to score a goal or points by moving the ball to an opposing team's end of the field.

In most codes of football, there are rules restricting the movement of players offside.

Goals or points can result from players putting the ball between two goalposts.

Gaelic football is not commonly played in North America

The Football League was founded in England in 1888, becoming the first of many professional football associations.

The various codes of football can be grouped into two main classes of football: carrying codes like American football, Canadian football, Australian football, rugby union, and rugby league, where the ball is moved about the field while being held in the hands or thrown, and kicking codes such as Association football and Gaelic football, where the ball is moved primarily with the feet, and where handling is strictly limited.

In all codes of football, common elements include two teams of usually between 11 and 18 players, a clearly defined area in which to play the game, scoring goals or points by moving the ball to an opposing team's end of the field and either into a goal area, or over a line, goals or points resulting from players putting the ball between two goalposts, the goal or line being defended by the opposing team, and players using only their body to move the ball, i.e. no additional equipment such as bats or sticks.

In most codes of football, common skills include passing, tackling, evasion of tackles, catching, and kicking.

In most codes of football, there are rules restricting the movement of players offside, and players scoring a goal must put the ball either under or over a crossbar between the goalposts.

Basketball is not a form of football. The various forms of football include Association football, gridiron football, Australian rules football, rugby union, rugby league, and Gaelic football.

Option C is the correct answer. Tepuk is the Central Asian game that involves people trying to attack each other's castle by kicking a ball made of sheep leather.

Option B is the correct answer. William Strachey recorded a game played by Native Americans called Pahsaheman in 1610.

Option C is the correct answer. The game played by Northeastern American Indians, which made use of net racquets to throw and catch a small ball is called lacrosse.

Option B is the correct answer. The game played by Australian tribes of indigenous people with stuffed balls is called Marn Grook.

Option B is the correct answer. Robert Brough-Smyth wrote the 1878 book "The Aborigines of Victoria" which includes an anecdote about Marn Grook.

Option A is the correct answer. The game played by the Māori in New Zealand consisting of teams of seven players is called Ki-o-rahi.

Option C is the correct answer. FIFA describes Episkyros as an early form of football

Pasuckuakohowog is a Native American ball game similar to modern-day association football.

Harpastum is an early form of football that is believed to have resembled rugby football.

Ancient Romans are known to have played ball games with an air-filled ball called follis.

Richard Mulcaster, a student at Eton College in the early 16th century and later headmaster at other English schools, has been described as "the greatest sixteenth Century advocate of football".

Marn Grook is the name of the Aboriginal Australian kicking and catching game with stuffed balls.

Mulcaster's writings refer to teams ("sides" and "parties"), positions ("standings"), a referee ("judge over the parties") and a coach "(trayning maister)".

In 1633, David Wedderburn, a teacher from Aberdeen, mentioned elements of modern football games in a short Latin textbook called Vocabula.

Wedderburn refers to what has been translated into modern English as "keeping goal" and makes an allusion to passing the ball ("strike it here").

Willughby, who had studied at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, is the first to describe goals and a distinct playing field: "a close that has a gate at either end. The gates are called Goals."

Willughby mentions tactics ("leaving some of their best players to guard the goal"); scoring ("they that can strike the ball through their opponents' goal first win") and the way teams were selected ("the players being equally divided according to their strength and nimbleness").

English public schools were the first to codify football games. In particular, they devised the first offside rules, during the late 18th century. The first known codes – in the sense of a set of rules – were those of Eton in 1815 and Aldenham in 1825.

In the earliest manifestations of these rules, players were "off their side" if they simply stood between the ball and the goal which was their objective.

The earliest known evidence of organized team football comes from the Vulgaria by William Herman in 1519, which includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde".

Richard Mulcaster, a student at Eton College in the early 16th century and later headmaster at other English schools, has been described as "the greatest sixteenth Century advocate of football".

Mulcaster believed that organizing football into teams with positions and a referee, and avoiding violent body contact, could make the game less barbarous and more beneficial to the body.

Eton College codified the first known set of rules for football in 1815, and Aldenham School followed in 1825.

David Wedderburn's Vocabula, a Latin textbook from 1633, includes a reference to passing the ball ("strike it here") in a football-like game.

Francis Willughby's Book of Games from about 1660 includes the earliest known "law" of football: "they must not strike [an opponent's leg] higher than the ball".

All FIFA tournaments generate revenue from sponsorship, which in 2018, amounted to over US$4.6 billion. FIFA had cash reserves of over US$2.7 billion at the end of the 2015-2018 cycle, indicating the financial success of the organization.

Investigative journalists have linked FIFA leadership with corruption, bribery, and vote-rigging related to the election of FIFA president Sepp Blatter and the decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively.

The division between "kicking" and "running" (or "carrying") games was first made clear at English public schools, but it was not a contribution of Richard Mulcaster. Mulcaster's contributions include references to teams, positions, a referee and a coach, as well as the earliest evidence of organised team football and a move away from the disordered and violent forms of traditional football.

Francis Willughby, who had studied at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, is the author of the Book of Games, which includes the first description of goals and a distinct playing field. He also mentions tactics, scoring, and the way teams were selected. He is the first to describe a "law" of football: "they must not strike [an opponent's leg] higher than the ball".

English public schools were the first to codify football games, and they devised the first offside rules during the late 18th century. In the earliest manifestations of these rules, players were "off their side" if they simply stood between the ball and the goal which was their objective. Players were not allowed to pass the ball forward, either by foot or by hand. They could only dribble with their feet, or advance the ball in a scrum or similar formation.

The Vulgaria is a Latin textbook written by William Herman, who had been headmaster at Eton and Winchester colleges. It includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde", which provides the earliest evidence of games resembling football being played at English public schools.

Richard Mulcaster, a student at Eton College in the early 16th century and later headmaster at other English schools, has been described as "the greatest sixteenth Century advocate of football". Among his contributions are the earliest evidence of organised team football.

FIFA is responsible for organizing and promoting major international football tournaments, including the World Cup and the Women's World Cup.

FIFA was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.