There is no use denying the fact that sport has always been an integral part of human society. Since ancient times, people have devoted great attention to games with a competitive nature and develop various skills of participants. Being part of physical culture, with the development of society sport has become a very important sphere of human activity. Nowadays, it is not just a phenomenon which satisfies the needs of people and entertains them. It is the part of social life that spreads its influence on many layers of society. Besides, the more adherers a certain kind of sport has, the more influential it becomes. With this in mind, it is possible to say that is the most popular game nowadays, soccer can be taken as a unique phenomenon in the world of sport.
Thus, the rise of the popularity of this kind of sport can be connected with its blistering development. It is a well-known fact that soccer, as a kind of sport, appeared in England. However, it should be noted that games with a ball were popular in a great number of different countries all over the world, starting from China and ending with Greece. However, in England people created the first main rules which helped this game to obtain its well-known image.
Students of Cambridge and Oxford managed to create the main regulations and rules which later became accepted by all teams which played this game. Additionally, in 1885 soccer was accepted as a professional kind of sport (History of Soccer, n.d.). Since that time the blistering development of this kind of sport and the rise of its popularity has started. There were about 70 teams in England which played with each other. Moreover, the first international game between England and Scotland also promoted the development of this kind of sport. Being excited by the visual appeal of this kind of sport, people wanted to play soccer because It was rather easy to do as some special equipment except the ball was not needed.
As a consequence of all these events, nowadays soccer is the most popular sport which is played in all countries of the world. Traditionally, England was considered to be the place where this game had the greatest number of fans. However, nowadays, things are changed. There are many countries in which soccer is taken as a sort of religion and national teams are taken as the heroes of the nation. One of the brightest examples of such an attitude is Brazil.
Its national team is considered to be the strongest in the world and its football players have the marvelous skills that impress the whole world. Brazil is the five-time world champion and this result is not surpassed. Nevertheless, Pele, the best football player ever, was also born in Brazil.
With this in mind, it is possible to say that soccer is the most popular kind of sport in the world which has its unique history. Europeans and people who live in South America consider it to be a sort of religion, while in other countries it is less popular, though it continues its development. The most well known and strongest clubs like Real Madrid or Barcelona promote this increase, playing in different parts of the world. Moreover, it should also be said that the word soccer is not so widely used as the term football, which is used in the majority of countries that are taken as great admirers of this game (A Football History: from its origin to now, n.d.).
References
A Football History: from its origin to now. (n.d.). Web.
History of Soccer. (n.d.). Web.