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Latvia is the first football team from the Baltic states to make an appearance in a major football competition, UEFA Euro 2004. 2004 in football Greece produce one of the shocks in football history and become surprise winners of the Euro 2004 football tournament, defeating hosts Portugal 1–0 in the final.
The Koninklijke HFC was the first Dutch football club. Ten years later, in 1889, the Royal Dutch Football Association (the KNVB) was founded. Association football was introduced in the Danish club, Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB) by English residents, [42] in Swiss club FC St. Gallen in 1879 and in Belgium Royal Antwerp FC in 1880.
In the 2017 film Lost In Florence, Brett Dalton plays a former college football star who travels to Italy and becomes involved in playing calcio storico fiorentino. In episode 4, "Judgement Day" of the TV series, Medici: Masters of Florence , the main characters engage in a game of calcio storico fiorentino in the main square of Florence during ...
The history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ...
American football, with 1.1 million high school football players and nearly 70,000 college football players, is the most popular sport in the United States, [140] [141] with the annual Super Bowl game accounting for nine of the top ten of the most watched broadcasts in U.S. television history. [142]
North America is the dominant region in women's football, with the United States winning the most FIFA Women's World Cups and Olympic tournaments. Europe and Asia come second and third in terms of international success, [92] [93] and the women's game has been improving in South America. [94]
Defunct association football competitions in Europe (23 C) D. History of football in Denmark (3 C, 2 P) F. History of football in France (5 C, 3 P) G.
The following year, Henry IV imposed fines of 20 shillings on certain mayors and bailiffs who had allowed football and other "misdemeanours" to occur in their towns. This is the earliest documentary evidence of football being played throughout England. [4] There is mention of football being played at Cambridge University in 1710.