How Soccer Started

Have you ever wonder how soccer football games get into our life? When and where is the origin of this game?

There are many formulations on how and when was the real beginning and origin of the game. As a game soccer was played in 19th century in England. But some say that football was played way more back, this can be true because a lot of games are modified from their original forms to the advanced and modern ones.

Well the history of soccer goes back into the 1800's in Manchester, England. A group of people had seen the sport rugby. Rugby was before soccer but a group of people changed the concept and used to play with the ball just with their foot. This group started the sport, hired a commissioner and named it football. The reason named is due to the part used to play this game. The first formal match was in 1834 between two small league England teams. This group grew and made the sport move across continents. They named their organization FIFA Federal International Football Association.

The History of modern-day soccer was established in 1863. Two teams of England were to play a match, eleven a side. The main out come of this meeting was to redefine the new rules and boundaries. From here started a new soccer era. FIFA was established in 1904 and different countries and nations started to gather to adopt the sports and enjoy the full game.

England working out on Penalties

Today Gareth Southgate said that regularly practicing penalty shoot outs will be key to England chances of success at the coming World Cup in South Africa.

England has many times sent out crashing due to miss in penalty shoot outs. In other words we can say that England have a poor record in penalty shoot outs. World cups in 1990, 1998, 2006 and European championships in 1996, 2004 all saw them going home after losing their nerve from the spot.

Southgate, who won 57 caps and represented England at two World Cups, warned that even the squad's most accomplished penalty takers would find it hard to blank out the pressure. Fabio Capello will have his strategy and will know who his best penalty takers are. But it does not guarantee anything. Sometimes guys miss when you really expect them to score. Nothing can prepare you for the pressure. For example we saw Frank Lampard miss one in the FA Cup Final, yet he is a consistent penalty taker. There is always that element that something like that can happen in any shoot out.

But there is a believe that like any skill the more you practice it can make you so comfortable with things that you can handle things normally under pressure. And again there can come a situation where England might need a penalty score to live in the game. Southgate has backed the 22 year old to be named in England's final 23 man squad. He added " Adam is a very exciting player. He had an unbelievable rise this year and I would be very tempted to take him as he is a different type of player to the other ones we have. He had a marvelous season, and whatever happens he had made his mark. If he makes it, it's a huge bonus. "

Michael Essien is out of the World Cup 2010

The Chelsea midfielder is suffering from injury and he cannot be recovered till the end of July.

The GFA said that the decision was taken after a joint evaluation of his fitness by them and his club.

HIS LAST PERFORMANCE FOR AFRICA CUP WAS SATISFACTORY.

He GETS injury at that time and has not played for either Ghana or Chelsea.

Michale Essien has been keen to play down speculation about his chances of making the World Cup.