The history of soccer in the olympics

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Soccer has been in the Olympics for quite a long time, but the first time it entered was in 1908 in the London games. There were 4 teams that were invited to participate in the first games. That was only the mens, but i bet some of the women wanted to play as well, so the women were able to play in the official program in 1996.

In between this gap of time there was a man named  Henri Delaunay that made a proposal to initiate a professional world cup championship of football. Which was passed and that is how the world cup came to be. Why would people want to train for the World Cup and Olympics? Im sure that it was a controversy. So they made it possible for many people to play, where the people in the World Cup could not play in the Olympics games.

        The United states has been in many of the FIFA Cups, FIFA stands for International Federation          
of Association Football. The rules of the game have been developed since it has started. The size for example, the size of a soccer field has to be between 100m- 110m long and 64m- 75m wide.

 There is also a point on the field called the penalty spot which is 11m from the mouth of the goal.The point of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team. The team with the most goals at the end of the game wins the game. If you would like to find more information on the history of soccer I very highly recommend worldsoccer.com 

 http://www.worldsoccer.com/features/history-of-the-olympic-football-tournament

http://www.nbcolympics.com/soccer/about-this-sport/history/news=soccer-history.html