PE Soccer History

More than 240 million people around the world play soccer regularly according to the______

• FIFA

• IFAB

• FIBA

• MLS

What does FIFA stand for?

• Federation Internationale de Football Association

• International Football Association Board

What does IFAB stand for?

• International Football Association Board

• Federation Internationale de Football Association

Records trace the history of soccer back more than _____ years ago to_______.

• 300 ; Ancient Greece

• 2000 ; Ancient Greece

• 300 ; Ancient China

• 2000 ; Ancient China

It was ______ that

transitioned soccer, or what the British and many other people around the world call “football,”

into the game we know today.

• Greece

• Rome

• England

• Central America

the penalty kick was introduced in____.

• 1891

• 1981

• 1997

• 1876

FIFA became a member of the

International Football Association Board of Great Britain in____.

• 1987

• 1919

• 1913

• 1875

Red and yellow cards were introduced during the ________.

• 1932

• 1965 World Cup finals

• 1970 World Cup finals

• 1866

goalkeepers were banned from handling deliberate back passes in ______.

• 1992

• 1985

• 1977

• 1892

tackles from behind became red-card penalties in ____.

• 1984

• 1986

• 1897

• 1998