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

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: The Position on Soccer Team

Today I will discuss the position on soccer team. There are many different position for soccer player to perform. It's obvious that a soccer team is consisted of 11 players, nevertheless, these 11 player play a different role in match. Each role (position) is a part of the team which means it make different function to support the whole team. For example, a forward is to attack and have goal. But a defender is to stop opposite side player attacking.

The position for soccer basically divide by three parts forwards, midfielders and defenders. Different position have different function and different mission. A forward player take charge of attack of the team. That players always have good skill and good shooting as well as fast speed. A midfield player take charge of the team controlling and passing. These players need to have good vision and observation ability. A defend player take charge of the team defending, they always have strong body and good awareness. In addition, another role for soccer player is goal keeper which is very important and necessary part of team because goal keeper is the last defending line of a team, it's always depending on a goal keeper who has a good work or not to decide the winer.

If detailedly dividing the position on soccer team, it can be divided to this following: GK, LB, LCB, CB, RCB, RB, CWP, DMF, LMF, RMF, CMF, AMF, SS, CF, WF, LWF, RWF

Here is a link about the introduction of position on soccer team: http://coachingamericansoccer.com/tactics-and-teamwork/soccer-positions/

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Soccer Clubs

If you talk with someone about soccer, you will always ask:" what's your favorite soccer club?" There are many soccer clubs in the world and at least one which belongs to each soccer fan. That's mean you will follow and crazy about a club if you love soccer. Nevertheless, each club is different in many way such as name, team logo, league matches and so on. I will divide them in different country's league matches, because nowadays, more and more countries hold their league matches including England, Spain, China, USA, Brazil, etc.

The most famous and popular league in the world is Euorpe's big five football leagues which are the English Premier League, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga, Spanish La Liga and French Ligue 1. There are many famous soccer clubs in these leagues. Like Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal in the English Premier League; AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus in Italian Serie A; Bayern Munich, Dortmund in German Bundesliga; Barcelona, Real Madrid in Spanish La Liga; Paris Saint-Germain, Marseilles in French Ligue 1. Furthermore, it is also many other countries have their league and clubs. So, soccer clubs is one of the most important things in the diversity of soccer culture.

However, I am a soccer fan, so I have my favorite team of course. Here is a link about the introduction of my favorite team - Chelsea. https://www.chelseafc.com/

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Soccer Media

Soccer is one of the most famous sports in the world. One important reason is that it has many different kinds of matches. Because of that, it need a big media system to support them. For example, an exciting and attractive soccer match is coming that night. There are many media such as newspaper, television, Internet will focus on the per news of the match which including locale weather, news about two teams, first formation and so on. Identically, there are also lots of news after matching. So, the various of the matches make many news everyday including the result of match, soccer player news, the management events of the team, etc. These news are posted on TV, Internet and newspaper everyday to catch people eyes. Becoming a habit for people to look some soccer news everyday. So soccer can be showed and cared by people, which letting it popular all the time.

There are many media which mainly focus on soccer. Sky sports is one of the most famous one, it is widely report soccer news in different medium like television and newspaper. Other media like , L'Équipe, 《La Gazzetta Dello Sport》, Marca, NBC, ESPN, NGSN.

Here is a link for Sky Sports: http://www.skysports.com/

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: All Kinds of Soccer Matches

The various of soccer matches can be basically divided to two parts, club league match and international competition. Club league match is in a country which has many private self-management football club to compete each other by weekly matches in a season once a year. Nowadays, club league match is common and wide in many countries like England, Spain, Germany, Italy and so on. These matches are held about 9 months in every year. So it likes our life will happen everyday. there are also have two kinds matches in club league which are during the league season. One is some championships in the country league, the other is intercontinental matches like UEFA Champions League and Liberators of the Americas Cup. International competition is a national team of a country. The team is represent their country to compete. These matches are always held fourth a year. The most famous one is the World Cup. It is a very exciting and royal event for all the people in the world, like a Carnival. Except the World Cup, there are also have many other international competitions like European Football Championship, AFC Asian Cup and Copa América.



Here is a link about the introduction of the World Cup.  http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/brazil2014/

The Diversity of Soccer Culture: Female in Soccer

This is my first blog to post in Media 10. The topic is about the diversity of soccer culture. I will focus on this topic, to study and research them in this semester. It's exciting and challenging for me. Because it is the first media class for me, and I will learn a lot of interesting things about media. I think it will be very funny.

I will talk about soccer culture. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world. It's full of passion and energy. Many people keen on soccer. They play soccer with their friends, they watch soccer games every week, they crazy about the skills of soccer. But, if you talk to someone about soccer, the first image come out is men. A man soccer player, a man soccer fan, etc. Actually, it just a few years idea. Nowadays, female in soccer is more and more popular and normally. Since 1991, Federation International Football Association announce that the women's soccer officially be held in the World Cup. It showed that women has joined in soccer. But, at that time, it is not popular enough to catch people eyes. With the development of soccer, also women's soccer. More and more female curious about soccer. In some country, they have advanced women's soccer system to train women playing soccer like Unite States and Germany. Many girls see soccer as their first sport choice. More and more female become a soccer fan, more and more female join in the big soccer family. Through the development and the spread of media, soccer is no longer a men's game.

Here is a link of the Unite State International Women's Soccer Team. There are many introduction about women's soccer. 

http://www.ussoccer.com/womens-national-team