Welcome To Muggle Studies with Profesor Anias!
Lesson #1:
In 40 words please explain everything about the information above. Due___Worth 70 points.
I am Profesor Anias.
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Lesson #2:
Ello, this is my second muggle studies lesson. Since you started with the topic of sports(football), i decided to keep going with the sports. My topic for this week is soccer. anyways, here it is-
Muggle Sports-Women's Soccer
Today, soccer is a much-loved sport. Originally, soccer was thought to be a male sport. But during the past decade, we have proved otheriwise. The first ever Women's World Cup was played in China during 1991. The United States took home the victory during this Cup. The 1999 Women's World Cup was hosted by the United States, and the first game was in New York. This game broke the record for spectators when 78,972 people attended the game. The finale game was held in Los Angeles, and the United States, once again, beat China. Over 658,000 people had attended the games, and over 1 billion people had viewed the games on television. Some of the famous female soccer players from the United States include: Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, and Joy Fawcett. In conclusion, this Cup has put women's soccer down in history forever.
Homework Questions
1) At first, was soccer thought to be a male or a female sport?
2) What was the "cup" called?
3) Where was the first cup held?
4) Who won the championship in the cup of 1999?
5) Name 2 of the 3 famous US soccer stars mentioned above.
Worth 50 points.
Football in various forms had been played through-out the world long before the nineteenth-century middle-class mania for rules and regulations. In America it had been popular among native peoples before the Europeans arrived, and it maintained this popularity as the Europeans brought their village games with them to the New World. "Soccer", or association football, from which the name soccer was later derived by Americans.
In reality there was no first game of football, for its origins go back to the beginning of recorded history: in preindustrial societies it was often a "mob" game of village against village, lacking written rules and celebrated as part of a fertility rite or to mark particular seasons of the year; more sophisticated kicking games were to be found in societies as diverse as ancient China (which boasts the oldest rules resembling today's games).
As Britain changed from an agrarian to an industrial society beginning about 1750, soccer was adapted to fit suit the narrow streets and hard surfaces of the new urban communities. Improvements in roads and transportation allowed games to be played outside the local village, and as steam trains started to link the ever-growing towns of Britain, it became possible to play on a national basis the games that the middle class favored and promoted.
Some Old Salopians and Old Etonians, one of which forbade kicking opponents with steel-plated boots, drew up the first combined rules in 1846. The first serious attempt to create a uniform set of rules, however, came at Cambridge in 1848. These rules provided the basis of the laws of association football, which were agreed on at a meeting of alumni from various public schools at the historic meeting in London's Freemason's Tavern on October 26, 1863 and at five subsequent meetings.
In Melbourne, where respectable young men of liberal professions were keen to continue their favorite leisure pursuit without having to appear before their clients the following Monday with black eyes or broken arms, a set of rules were agreed on in 1866 that were meant to make their game less rough.
Notts County, founded in 1862, is the oldest soccer team still playing in major competition.
