FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa

Football, the game for which millions of people and several countries are crazy. This is the game of kicks to the ball, running with it, passing the ball and trying to shoot it in to the oppoiste side goal post to score a point. This game is mostly played in europian and western countries including some of the asian and african countries. The most valuable competition of football is known as Fifa World Cup which is played after every 4 years and top of the football playing countries participate in this football world cup for winning. This is the most prestigious tournament of football.

The origin of the football is supposed from 2nd century BC during the Han Dynasty. That time this game was known as 'Cuju' which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles. This game was again re-invented by English people after around thousand year later. Now this game was named 'Football'. This game was used by number of different related team sports such as Rugby football, American footbal, Gelic football, Australian rules football and Canadian football. After some time this game was also known as Soccer. From the origin of Football several changes came into this game like 11 on a team instead of 15, also created the quarter back and center positions, forward pass, safty, interference, penalties and so on.

Now all the laws and rules of football are determined by the International Footbal Association Board (IFAB). This association was formed in 1886. FIFA, Federation International de Football Association is a international organising body of football. This association is known for orgainsing several most prestigious international football competitions in which FIFA World Cup is most favourite competition among all the countries.

Cricket History

Historians have attempted to trace its origin in various ball games played by ancient races and, even if some of these derivations are a little far fetched, we can at least say that 250 years ago the game was being played in a form not so very dissimilar from that of today. Cricket, like Hockey, was brought to the Indian sub-continent by the British. There are references to cricket having being played in India in the early parts of the 18th century. By the beginning of the 19th century the game was being played in the cities of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.

The presidency matches began in 1892-93 between Parsis and Europeans and the tournament became the Bombay Triangular, with the Hindus fielding a team in 1907-08. In 1912-13, the tournament became quadrangular with the entry of Muslims in the field. With the efforts of several Princes, H E Grant-Gloven and A S de Mellow, the national championship, the Ranji Trophy began in 1935.
India played its first official Test against England in 1932.

List of First Class Cricket grounds in India

Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Madras Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Eden Gardens, Calcutta Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Green Park (Modi Stadium), Kanpur Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Vishakhapatnam Lal Bahadur Stadium, Hyderabad Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna Moti Bagh Stadium, Baroda Nehru Stadium, Pune Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur Wankhede Stadium, Bombay

Hockey History

The Indian hockey team is the national field hockey team of India. The team was formed in 1928, when the Indian Hockey Federation was formed in Gwalior and was the first non-European team to be a part of the International Hockey Federation. The team was the first ever international Indian team to set foot in Australia and New Zealand (1926). In 1928, the team won their first Olympic gold medal.

From 1928 to 1956, India remained unbeaten in the Olympics garnering six gold medals in a row. Today the Indian team has won a total of eight gold, one silver and two bronze medals in Olympics.