A brief overview of football Football was first played in various ways during the Middle Ages and dates back approximately two thousand years before it was officially invented in the U.K. in the 19th century. With the founding of the Football Association (FA) in 1863, the organized version of football, known as Association Football, got started. FIFA, the organization in charge of regulating the sport was established in 1904. Since then, it has been impossible to constrain the game's global…