Soccer is one of the most popular team games that is played in at least hundred countries. Modern rules for soccer take their roots back in the nineteenth century, when football association and local communities made an effort to standardize soccer rules across England. Special role in the development of modern football belongs to the soccer league of the Cambridge University that first tried to put together the rules for this game back in 1848. Today’s soccer is also known as associated football and the game is highly standardized across the world. Soccer’s popularity was growing on a daily basis and very soon people realized the need for the single body that would control and monitorinternational game’s relations.
The first competition that introduced international character of football officially started in the beginning of the twentieth century. None of them, however, were as successful as the Olympic Games in England in 1908. The FIFA influence and consequent membership was growing in a fast p

ace and very soon left the borders of Europe, joining South Africa, Chile, Argentina and the United States.