And What Do They Have To Do With Lipton Tea? Great Britain Football Team at the 1908 Olympic Games In 1908, the Summer Olympic Games were held in London. This edition of the Olympics marked the first time football was officially included as a competitive event. However, responsibility for organising the tournament was not handed to FIFA. Instead, it was managed by the Football Association, with FIFA acting merely in a supervisory capacity. Football at the Olympic Games differed significantly...

1986 World Cup Review In the summer of 1986, football gathered in Mexico. Twenty-four teams arrived with plans, systems, and expectations. What followed was not simply a tournament. It was a sequence of matches where structure bent to individual influence, and collective effort revolved around a single focal point. This was a World Cup shaped by context—economic crisis, national recovery, tactical evolution—and defined by moments that refused to fade. A competition remembered not only for its...

From English Roots to the Rise of Global Competition Modern football originated in England in the 19th century and has since become the most popular sport in the world, often referred to as “the world’s number one sport.” Among all football competitions, the most closely watched and widely discussed event is without doubt the World Cup. Poster of the first World Cup held in 1930 The FIFA World Cup brings together top national teams from every continent and is held once every four years. Teams...