[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1485944863191{padding-bottom: 22px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal. According to FIFA, the Chinese competitive game cuju (蹴鞠, literally “kick ball”) is the earliest form of football for which there is scientific evidence. The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play and only in their penalty area. Cuju players could use any part of the body apart from hands and the intent was kicking a ball through an opening into a net. It was remarkably similar to modern football, though similarities to rugby occurred. During the Han Dynasty (206 BC — 220 AD), cuju games were standardised and rules were established.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1485944682205{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may also use their head or torso. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time or a penalty shootout depending on the format of the competition.[/vc_column_text][stm_block_quote blockquote_style=”style_2″ bq_text=”Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA; French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association), which organises World Cups for both men and women.”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1485949846235{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 33px !important;background-color: #ededed !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1485944919278{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]

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Canada participates in the First Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The first written “reference to the inflated ball used in the game” was in the mid-14th century: “Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe”. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word “soccer” was “split off in 1863”. According to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford “-er” abbreviation of the word “association”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”806″ img_size=”full” alignment=”right” css_animation=”slideInRight”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”2005-2008″ tab_id=”1485924975304-a01fd327-26d5″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/12″][vc_single_image image=”806″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_column_text]

Canada participates in the First Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The first written “reference to the inflated ball used in the game” was in the mid-14th century: “Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe”. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word “soccer” was “split off in 1863”. According to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford “-er” abbreviation of the word “association”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”806″ img_size=”full” css_animation=”slideInRight”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”2008-2011″ tab_id=”1485924974380-ff3e6c9d-5a78″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/12″][vc_single_image image=”806″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_column_text]

Canada participates in the First Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The first written “reference to the inflated ball used in the game” was in the mid-14th century: “Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe”. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word “soccer” was “split off in 1863”. According to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford “-er” abbreviation of the word “association”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”806″ img_size=”full” css_animation=”slideInRight”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”2011-2014″ tab_id=”1485924973656-d311a5e1-72db”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/12″][vc_single_image image=”806″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_column_text]

Canada participates in the First Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The first written “reference to the inflated ball used in the game” was in the mid-14th century: “Þe heued fro þe body went, Als it were a foteballe”. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the word “soccer” was “split off in 1863”. According to Partha Mazumdar, the term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford “-er” abbreviation of the word “association”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_single_image image=”806″ img_size=”full” css_animation=”slideInRight”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”2014-2016″ tab_id=”1485924972893-fd675f51-da7e”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/12″][vc_single_image image=”806″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/12″][vc_column_text]

Canada participates in the First Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Canada participates in the First Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba

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