The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Modern Soccer History

This is the last blog to post in Media 10 this semester. I talked and introduced many soccer culture in the blog and very happy to share with you. Today, I will introduce the history of modern soccer.

Modern soccer originate from the United Kingdom in the 11th century as a egend. In the 12th century, the UK has their first soccer match. The match is for entertainment, held on twice a year and always between two cities. But the soccer match which is not seemed like what we see now. At that time, people played soccer just rush to catch the ball and fight together in order to kick the ball to city center because it will be the winner which team kick the ball to the center firstly. So, people always kick the ball into someone house, but the game is continue, they rush into the house and break all the things in the house. That why many people hate soccer at that time. However, in 1848, the first official rule is created which called "Cambridge rules". From then on, people played soccer in a new way. Also, the oldest soccer club in the world is set up in a small city in the UK called Nottinghamshire in 1862. At the same time, people unify the rules for soccer and it is call "the birth of soccer" by people. The second session of the Olympic Games in 1900, soccer is listed as official competition. And in 1904, FIFA (Federation International de Football Association) is set up in Paris. A new soccer era is opened.

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Some Rules of Soccer

Today I will talk about some rules in soccer match. Rule is a very important thing or factor in sports competition. In other words, without rule, sports can't be played well and can't be fair. So, I will introduce some rules about soccer.

The basically number of player for each team is 11, can't be added or reduced at the beginning of the match. Each player as a character in the match. How to get a point? In soccer, if a player shoot (anyway) the ball over the line of opposite gate, it will get one point which mean have a goal. Furthermore, sometimes a team attack to another team. They are called stop by referee because of offside. The meaning of offside is a little bit complex, so I use a professional explaining. A player must be offside the moment the ball is played by a teammate. And to be called offside, the player must also be involved in an "active play" by gaining an advantage by being offside, or interfere with a play, or an opponent.To be offsides, the player must also be on the opponent's half of the soccer field, being closer to the opponent's goal line than both the ball and the next-to-last defender (the goalkeeper is usually the last defender). Offside will not be called if an offside player is not active in the play (FIFA's Laws of the Game: The 17 Rules of Soccer). In addition, if a player fouls in the match, he will has penalty from referee. The degree of penalty will be depended on how the player fouls . It divide to just call stop and give the fouled team start to continue, referee verbal warnings, referee gives yellow card and referee gives red card. If a player gets red card in the match, he will be sent off. Also, If a player gets twice yellow card, he will still be sent off because two yellow cards as the same as red card.

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: José Mourinho

José Mourinho is one of the most famous soccer coach in the world. He is a smart man, handsome and full of personality charm. He is crazy in match when his team win, but when his team is lost, he always calm and can find good way to let them win. "The special one" is came from Mourinho. This is what he said when he first time be the coach of Chelsea at press conference in 2004. The career in Chelsea is very successful which letting him became famous. He is a man of character, so he has a named "madman". He is very clever and intelligent, he won many awards in his coach career. In 2002, Mourinho helped Porto win the champion of Primeira Super Liga which is the first champion he got. Then, in 2004, he went to London became Chelsea's coach. The first year, he help Chelsea won their first FA Premier League Champion. He is loved by all Chelsea fans and even when he left, there are many fans not willing to it. After the teaching in Chelsea, he went to Inter Milan in 2008. In 2008 to 2010, he won the champion of Super Coppa Italiana, Serie A and UEFA Champions League. In 2010, Mourinho became the coach of Real Madrid and had a very successful career in there. And now, he came back to Chelsea from 2013 to now. He help Chelsea won FA Premier League Champion again and he said that "now I am the happy one".

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Chelsea --- One of The Most Famous Football Clubs in The World

There are thousands of football clubs in the world. All of them from different counties and different level. And now, I will introduce a football club Chelsea which is one of the best and famous football clubs in the world.

Chelsea FC was formed on March 10 1905 in The Rising Sun Pub, Fulham Road by 
Henry Augustus Mears.  John Tait Robertson was the first manager of Chelsea. From now has 110 years history. In these 110 years, chelsea won many awards and trained many famous players. In 2003, Chelsea won heir first Premier League Champion. From then on, Chelsea has a rich boss whose name is Roman Abramovich. He gave Chelsea much money to buy many good player that's mean he helped Chelsea changed a lot. And because of that, Chelsea won many awards in 20 century. They won 5 times Premier League Champion, 7 times The Football Association Challenge Cup, 5 times Football League Cup, 4 times England Community Shield, 2 times UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, 1 time UEFA Super Cup and 1 time UEFA Champions League. There are also many famous football player came from Chelsea such asGianfranco Zola, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and so on.

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Soccer in Brazil

Today I will talk about soccer culture in Brazil. Brazil is a country that has a name --- Soccer Kingdom. The people in Brazil are crazy about soccer. They play soccer at wherever place and whatever time including children, young boys, adults and even elder. Because soccer is their live, is their country symbol. It's special and ridiculous that soccer are related to their political life. Can you image that? So, it is obvious that soccer is very popular and important in Brazil and also have a history. Nevertheless, because of love of soccer. There are many famous soccer player who is created from 1940s to now such as Pelé who has a name The King of football, alien Ronaldo Luiz Nazario De Lima, Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, Neymar da Silva Santos Júniorsoccer and so on. They help their international soccer team win many awards. The honor is following, Brazilian national football tea has won the FIFA World Cup tournament a record five times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, and is the only team to succeed in qualifying for every World Cup competition ever held. It is among the favorites to win the trophy every time competition is scheduled. After Brazil won its 3rd World Cup in 1970, they were awarded the Jules Rimet trophypermanently.

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Soccer and Gaming

Today I will talk about soccer and gaming. There are many famous games for soccer and very funny as well as popular. So, I will introduce three most popular soccer games to you.

The first one is FIFA. FIFA is one of most famous and popular soccer games in the world which is create by EA Sports company and will issue new version every year. So, this year is FIFA 16will be the newest. In FIFA, you we enjoy exciting gaming experience because you can control all soccer players of a team whatever you want what him to do like passing ball to other player, defend opposite player and shooting a goal so that you can win the match. Furthermore, you can create a manager to take charge of a team. Leading your team win many matches and get many cups to achieve the team as well as your goal.

The second game I want to introduce to you is PES. This game is similar to FIFA. You can control soccer player in match and buy many player what you want in the career mode. The significant difference between FIFA is the emblem of each team are different. Because the company of PES did't buy the copyright of team logo.

The last one is a very interesting and professional game named Football Manager. Although you can't control every soccer player you want, you can setting many tactic for your team and what your team playing just like a real match you see in television. It's many detail things for you to do such as the frequent movement of player, the defend target for each player, strategy for different situations and so on. So, this game maybe a little bit more tedious but for soccer crazy fans, it's a wonderful game.

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Soccer Formations

Last week I took about the position on soccer team. There are almost 20 different positions which have different functions and specific characteristics. Today, I will talk about how the positions standing to create different soccer formations. 

It's interesting to research soccer formation because there are all kinds of different and flexible formations in different occasions, just depending your opponent and the match how is going. Formations are the way a soccer team lines up its defense, midfield, and forward line at the beginning of the match. Dividing soccer formation in three types, there are offensive, controlling and defensive. For example, an offensive formation tend to attack, so it always put less defender and more forward such as 4-3-3, 3-4-3 and 3-5-2. In contrast, a defensive formation more focus on defend, so it will be more defenders on the formation like 5-4-1, 5-2-2-1 and 4-5-1. The last type is controlling formation which good at attack and defend balanced. These formations are useful because it is balance and flexible. Also easier to control the match so it is popular too. The typical formations for control are 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1 and 4-1-2-1-2.


Here is a link about the introduction of soccer formations: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1375589-15-tactical-formations-and-what-theyre-good-for