Good day my name is Christopher
I am a big fan of football and I play as a midfielder at my local league, I am a fan of Manchester United from a very tender age.
I hardly miss our match and I believe it
a win against Roma and we are taking the cup home

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The history of football (soccer)

Football (or soccer as the game is called in some parts of the world) has a long history. Football in its current form arose in England in the middle of the 19th century. But alternative versions of the game existed much earlier and are a part of the football history Early history and the precursors of football The first known examples of a team game involving a ball, which was made out of a rock, occurred in old
Mesoamerican cultures for over 3,000 years ago. It was by the Aztecs called Tchatali, although various versions of the game were spread over large regions. In some ritual occasions, the ball would symbolize the sun and the captain of the losing team would be sacrificed to the gods. A unique feature of the Mesoamerican ball game versions was a bouncing ball made of rubber – no other early culture had access to rubber.

The first known ball game which also involved kicking took place In China in the 3rd and 2nd century BC under the name cuju. Cuju was played with a round ball (stitched leather with fur or feathers inside) on an area of a square. A modified form of this game later spread to Japan and was by the name of kemari practiced under ceremonial forms. An important feature of the forerunners to football was that the games involved plenty of people and took place over large areas in towns (an equivalent was played in Florence from the 16th century where it was called Calcio). The rampage of these games would cause damage on the town and sometimes death to the participants. These would be among the reasons for the proclamations against the game that finally was forbidden for several centuries. But the football-like games would return to the streets of London in the 17th century. It would be forbidden again in 1835, but at this stage the game had been established in the public schools.

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The first football clubs
Football clubs have existed since the 15th century, but unorganized and without official status. It is therefore hard to decide which the first football club was. Some historians suggest that it was the Foot-Ball Club formed 1824 in Edinburgh. Early clubs were often formed by former school students and the first of this kind was formed in Sheffield in 1855. The oldest among professional football clubs is the English club Notts County that was formed in 1862 and still exists today. An important step for the emergence of teams was the industrialization that led to larger groups of people meeting at places such as factories, pubs and churches. Football teams were established in the larger cities and the new railroads could bring them to other cities.

In the beginning, football was dominated by public school teams, but later, teams consisting by workers would make up the majority. Another change was successively taking place when some clubs became willing to pay the best players to join their team. This would be the start of a long period of transition, not without friction, in which the game would develop to a professional level.

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The motivation behind paying players was not only to win more matches. In the 1880s the interest in the game has moved ahead to a level that tickets were sold to the matches. And finally, in 1885 professional football was legalized and three years later the Football League was established. During the first season, 12 clubs joined the league, but soon more clubs became interested and the competition would consequently expand into more divisions.

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As with many things in history, women were for a long time excluded from participating in games. It was not before the late 19th century that women started to play football. The first official women's game took place in Inverness in 1888.

The first competitions
Historic football game in picturesOther milestones were now to follow. Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup) became the first important competition when it was run in 1871. The following year a match between two national teams was played for the first time. The match that involved England and Scotland ended 0-0 and was followed by 4,000 people at Hamilton Crescent (the picture shows illustrations from this occasion). Twelve years later, in 1883, the first international tournament took place and included four national teams: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Football was for a long time a British phenomenon, but it gradually spread to other European countries. The first game that took place outside Europe occurred in Argentina in 1867, but it was foreign British workers who were involved and not Argentinean citizens.

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The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in 1904 and a foundation act was signed by representatives from France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. England and the other British countries did not join FIFA from the start, they had invented the game and saw no reason to subordinate to an association. Still, they joined in the following year, but would not partake in the World Cup until 1950.

Already in the late 19th century, Goodison Park was built in England in purpose of hosting football games. In 1894, the FA Cup final between Notts County and Bolton Wanderers was attended by 37,000 people. A milestone in the development of football stadiums is the construction of Maracanã Stadium. In the year of 1950 the imposing stadium in Rio de Janeiro was ready for almost 200,000 people. No other sport has seen stadiums of that capacity built to host its games.

The great modern competitions
No other sport event besides the Summer Olympic Games can today measure itself with the FIFA World Cup. The first edition of the FIFA World Cup was played in 1930 in Uruguay and has since then returned every fourth year (with two exceptions due to the Second World War). In 1991 the first World Cup for women was held in China and has since then also returned every fourth year.

Today the biggest global tournament for clubs is the Champions League (played since 1992), the former European Cup (1955–1991).

Globalization of the biggest sport in the world
In the late 19th century, only a few national football teams existed; England and Scotland had the first active teams that played games against each other in the 1870s. Today there are 211 national associations included in the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world governing body of the sport. Another proof of the globalization could be seen in the increase of nations participating in the World Cup qualifiers: from 32 in 1934 to over 200 in 2014.

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The world regions have been divided into six confederations: Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF), Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA), The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL).

Football is definitely a global sport and without comparison the biggest in the world. A quote from David Goldblatt's book The Ball is Round is one way to answer why:

It offers the spotlight for individual brilliance while relishing the defiance and heart of collective endeavor. It has staged tragedy and comedy, epic and pantomime, unsophisticated music hall and inaccessible experimental performances. It does imperious triumph, lucky escapes, impossible comebacks and stubborn stalemates. It captures the brilliance of unpredictability, the uncertainty of the human heart and human skill, of improvisation and chance.

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Manchester United

FOUNDED IN 1878 AS NEWTON HEATH L&YR FOOTBALL CLUB, OUR CLUB HAS OPERATED FOR OVER 140 YEARS. THE TEAM FIRST ENTERED THE ENGLISH FIRST DIVISION, THEN THE HIGHEST LEAGUE IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL, FOR THE START OF THE 1892-93 SEASON. OUR CLUB NAME CHANGED TO MANCHESTER UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB IN 1902, AND WE WON THE FIRST OF OUR 20 ENGLISH LEAGUE TITLES IN 1908. IN 1910, WE MOVED TO OLD TRAFFORD, OUR CURRENT STADIUM.

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Old Trafford - Theatre of Dreams
OLD TRAFFORD THEATRE OF DREAMS

Our Old Trafford stadium, commonly known as "The Theatre of Dreams," was originally opened on February 19, 1910 with a capacity of approximately 80,000. During the Second World War, Old Trafford was used by the military as a depot, and on March 11, 1941 was heavily damaged by a German bombing raid. The stadium was rebuilt following the war and reopened on August 24, 1949. The addition of floodlighting, permitting evening matches, was completed in 1957 and a project to cover the stands with roofs was completed in 1959. After a series of additions during the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, capacity at Old Trafford reached 56,385 in 1985. The conversion of the stadium to an all-seater reduced capacity to approximately 44,000 by 1992, the lowest in its history. Thereafter, we began to expand capacity throughout the stadium, bringing capacity to approximately 58,000 by 1996, approximately 68,000 by 2000, and approximately 76,000 in 2006. Current capacity at Old Trafford is 75,454.

ARCHITECT Archibald Leitch (1909)
OPENED 1910

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Trophies won by Manchester United

Charity/Community Shield (20)
1908, 1911, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1967, 1977, 1983, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013

Football League Division I /
F.A Carling Premiership (19)
1908, 1911, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1967,

1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011

F.A Challenge Cup (11)
1909, 1948, 1963, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1994,
1996, 1999, 2004

Football League Cup (4)
1992, 2006, 2009, 2010

European Cup Winners Cup (1)
1991

European Super Cup (1)
1991

European Champions Cup /
European Champions League (3)
1968,

1999, 2008

Intercontinental Cup (1)
1999

Club World Cup (1)
2009

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Names of current Manchester United players
1
David de Gea
Goalkeeper
13
Lee Grant
Goalkeeper

22
Sergio Romero
Goalkeeper

26
Dean Henderson
Goalkeeper

30
Nathan Bishop
Goalkeeper

2
Victor Lindelöf
Defender

3
Eric Bailly
Defender

4
Phil Jones
Defender

5
Harry Maguire
Defender

23
Luke Shaw
Defender

29
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
Defender

38
Axel Tuanzebe
Defender

33
Brandon Williams
Defender

27
Alex Telles
Defender

6
Paul Pogba
Midfielder

8
Juan Mata
Midfielder

17
Fred
Midfielder

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Bruno Fernandes
Midfielder

21
Daniel James
Midfielder

31
Nemanja Matic
Midfielder

39
Scott McTominay
Midfielder

34
Donny van de Beek
Midfielder

54
Ethan Galbraith
Midfielder

48
William Fish
Midfielder

9
Anthony Martial
Forward

10
Marcus Rashford
Forward

7
Edinson Cavani
Forward

19
Amad
Forward

74
Shola Shoretire
Forward

56
Anthony Elanga
Forward

11
Mason Greenwood
Forward

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I love football ball it is a game of joy and happiness, it's filled with love and equality.
I love Manchester United because it always made me proud and my favorite color is red
I loved Manchester United since I was 4 ,
Then great Ronaldo AKA CR7 cemented my. Love for the team.