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Historical Dictionary
of Soccer
Tom Dunmore
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Contents
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vi • CONTENTS
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Editor’s Foreword
Soccer is clearly the world’s most popular sport. Its popularity can be
measured by the millions of ordinary people, young and not so young,
men and women, who play it for fun, and the millions of fans who watch it
on television. It is played nearly everywhere, in more than 200 countries,
by thousands of amateur teams at all levels and thousands of professional
teams. Soccer has become this popular because of its intrinsic merits as a
game. A large part of soccer’s appeal is the game’s basic structure and the
fact it can be played almost anywhere with a minimum amount of equip-
ment (a ball and two goals or nets). While it is mostly a spectator sport
(substantially more people watch the game than play it), it remains an ac-
tive form of recreation for many.
So, obviously, a Historical Dictionary of Soccer was a must for this se-
ries, and the present volume does an excellent job of presenting the sport.
Inevitably, more space is given to the professional aspects, but that is how
the sport has evolved and that is what will interest most readers. But soccer’s
amateur beginnings are not forgotten, and its ascension (which could hardly
have been expected by its founders) is traced in both the chronology and the
introduction. The dictionary section contains more than a hundred entries on
major players and professional teams, and dozens more on the major nations
playing the sport. It also presents information on the various associations that
promote and organize the sport, as well as those that provide key personnel,
such as coaches and referees. Obviously, there is no end to what can be said
about soccer, and this book is more a beginning than an end, so the bibliog-
raphy points to further reading.
Most of our historical dictionaries are written by academics, but this new
sports series engages the services of people active in the field. Moreover,
this book represents the first time one of our historical dictionaries has been
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written by someone who runs a blog, namely Tom Dunmore. This gives him
a good perspective on a sport that moves and changes so quickly, and an ex-
cellent point of view for knowing what is of interest to fans. So readers might
want to check out www.pitchinvasion.net, which has been widely recognized
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by sports blog readers and writers and has won several global awards. Aside
from that, Tom is an avid fan himself, and he is active in the supporters’
association of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club. This historical dictionary is,
therefore, an excellent guide for anyone who wants to know more about soc-
cer worldwide.
Jon Woronoff
Series Editor
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Preface
Selecting the entries for a historical dictionary of soccer was extremely diffi-
cult for one simple reason: soccer is the world’s most popular sport, living up
to its clichéd title, “the global game.” Therefore, covering soccer in anything
even remotely close to its entirety would require an extensive multivolume
encyclopedia. Soccer is played around the world by millions in an organized
fashion on teams, with countless millions more playing in recreational ad-
hoc games in parks, school yards, beaches, or anywhere a ball can be kicked.
Fully professional leagues exist in dozens of countries featuring thousands of
different club teams. The sport’s Switzerland-based global governing body,
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), counts over 200
nations as members, almost all of whom participate in the quadrennial FIFA
World Cup competition, arguably the world’s most-watched sporting event,
closely matched only by the Olympic Games.
Due to the vast scope of this global game, it would be impossible to cover
comprehensively in one volume every national team’s history or major play-
ers, let alone each country’s domestic club scene, and to do justice to the
game’s history in its organized form since the 1800s. Instead, looking at the
broad sweep of the sport since its rules were codified in 19th-century Britain,
the aim has been to produce a historical introduction to the key countries, club
teams, competitions, players, coaches, rules, administrators, and other key
parts of the game that have formed the sport of soccer as we know it today.
This presentation is necessarily subjective in the areas covered, but I believe
the selection of entries does provide a broad overview of the game’s history
while retaining a global perspective.
It is important to note that this volume refers to the game as “soccer”
throughout the text. The formal name of the sport is Association Football, but
it is known by many different names around the world and is rarely given its
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full name. In the country of the sport’s formal origins, Great Britain, it is most
commonly known simply as “football.” In the United States and a few other
English-speaking countries, it is known popularly as “soccer” to distinguish
it from another game played at a professional level, also known as “football.”
Soccer, though, actually has its linguistic origins in Great Britain, where it was
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Governing Bodies
AFC Asian Football Confederation
CAF Confederation of African Football
CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean
Association Football
CONMEBOL South American Football Confederation
FA; The FA The Football Association
FIFA Fédération Internationale de Football Association
IFAB International Football Association Board
IOC International Olympic Committee
MLS Major League Soccer
NASL North American Soccer League
OFC Oceania Football Confederation
UEFA Union of European Football Associations
USSF United States Soccer Federation
WPS Women’s Professional Soccer
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AUS Australia
AUT Austria
AZE Azerbaijan
BAH Bahamas
BAN Bangladesh
BDI Burundi
BEL Belgium
BEN Benin
BER Bermuda
BFA Burkina Faso
BHR Bahrain
BHU Bhutan
BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina
BLR Belarus
BLZ Belize
BOL Bolivia
BOT Botswana
BRA Brazil
BRB Barbados
BRU Brunei
BUL Bulgaria
CAM Cambodia
CAN Canada
CAY Cayman Islands
CGO Congo
CHA Chad
CHI Chile
CHN China PR
CIV Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
CMR Cameroon
COD Congo DR
COK Cook Islands
COL Colombia
COM Comoros
CPV Cape Verde
CRC Costa Rica
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CRO Croatia
CTA Central African Republic
CUB Cuba
CYP Cyprus
CZE Czech Republic
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DEN Denmark
DJI Djibouti
DMA Dominica
DOM Dominican Republic
DPR Korea DPR
ECU Ecuador
EGY Egypt
ENG England
EQG Equatorial Guinea
ERI Eritrea
ESP Spain
EST Estonia
ETH Ethiopia
FIJ Fiji
FIN Finland
FRA France
FRO Faroe Islands
GAB Gabon
GAM Gambia
GEO Georgia
GER Germany
GHA Ghana
GNB Guinea-Bissau
GRE Greece
GRN Grenada
GUA Guatemala
GUI Guinea
GUM Guam
GUY Guyana
HAI Haiti
HKG Hong Kong
HON Honduras
HUN Hungary
IDN Indonesia
IND India
IRL Republic of Ireland
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IRN Iran
IRQ Iraq
ISL Iceland
ISR Israel
ITA Italy
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JAM Jamaica
JOR Jordan
JPN Japan
KAZ Kazakhstan
KEN Kenya
KGZ Kyrgyzstan
KSA Saudi Arabia
KUW Kuwait
LAO Laos
LBR Liberia
LCA Saint Lucia
LES Lesotho
LIB Lebanon
LIE Liechtenstein
LTU Lithuania
LUX Luxembourg
LVA Latvia
MAC Macau
MAD Madagascar
MAR Morocco
MAS Malaysia
MDA Moldova
MDV Maldives
MEX Mexico
MGL Mongolia
MKD Macedonia
MLI Mali
MLT Malta
MNE Montenegro
MOZ Mozambique
MRI Mauritius
MSR Montserrat
MTN Mauritania
MWI Malawi
MYA Myanmar
NAM Namibia
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NCA Nicaragua
NCL New Caledonia
NED Netherlands
NEP Nepal
NIG Niger
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SUR Suriname
SVK Slovakia
SVN Slovenia
SWE Sweden
SWZ Swaziland
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SYR Syria
TAH Tahiti
TAJ Tajikistan
TAN Tanzania
TCA Turks and Caicos Islands
TGA Tonga
THA Thailand
TKM Turkmenistan
TLS Timor-Leste (East Timor)
TOG Togo
TPE Chinese Taipei
TRI Trinidad and Tobago
TUN Tunisia
TUR Turkey
UAE United Arab Emirates
UGA Uganda
UKR Ukraine
URU Uruguay
USA United States
UZB Uzbekistan
VAN Vanuatu
VEN Venezuela
VGB British Virgin Islands
VIE Vietnam
VIN Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
VIR U.S. Virgin Islands
WAL Wales
YEM Yemen
ZAM Zambia
ZIM Zimbabwe
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Chronology
Tavern in London. 8 December: The FA sets down 14 rules that form the
basis for today’s Laws of the Game.
1867 The first recorded soccer game in South America takes place in Ar-
gentina.
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1964 24 May: In Lima, Peru, 318 fans are killed and 511 injured, crushed
against exit gates following a disturbance in the crowd, toward the end of
an Olympic Games Football Tournament qualifier played between Peru and
Argentina.
1966 The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), the FIFA confedera-
tion governing soccer in the South Pacific region, is founded. 11 July–30
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July: England wins the FIFA World Cup for the first time as the host of
the competition, beating Germany 4-2 in the final at Wembley Stadium.
Portugal wins the third-place match 2-1 over the Soviet Union.
1969 The Women’s Football Association is formed in England, with 44
member clubs. 29 September: A plane carrying the champions of Bolivia,
The Strongest, crashes in the Andes Mountains near La Paz, Bolivia, killing
25 members of the team and 49 other passengers on board.
1970 31 May–21 June: In Mexico, Brazil wins its third FIFA World Cup
and is allowed to keep the Jules Rimet Trophy forever as a result, defeating
Italy 4-1 in the final. West Germany wins the third-place play-off over Uru-
guay 1-0. Red and yellow cards are used for the first time in the FIFA World
Cup finals.
1971 The ban on women playing on Football Association–affiliated stadi-
ums in England is rescinded after 50 years.
1974 Brazilian João Havelange is elected as the seventh president of FIFA.
13 June–7 July: West Germany wins the World Cup held on home soil,
beating the Netherlands in the final 2-1. Poland wins the third-place play-off
over Brazil 1-0.
1978 1–25 June: Argentina hosts the FIFA World Cup and wins it, defeat-
ing the Netherlands 3-1 in the final after extra time. Brazil wins the third-
place play-off 2-1 over Italy.
1984 First UEFA Women’s Championship competition takes place for
national teams in Europe.
1986 31 May–29 June: Mexico hosts the FIFA World Cup for the sec-
ond time, with Diego Maradona’s Argentina defeating West Germany 3-2
in the final after extra time. France beats Belgium 4-2 in the third-place
play-off.
1988 12 March: Ninety-four fans die following a stampede at a game in
Nepal due to a major hailstorm, with supporters crushed against exit gates.
1989 15 April: Ninety-six fans are killed and 200 are injured at an F.A.
Cup game in Sheffield, England, when supporters of Liverpool Football Club
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are crushed against steel fences after police allow too many fans to enter an
already-packed section of the stadium.
1990 8 June–8 July: Italy hosts the FIFA World Cup for the second time.
West Germany wins the tournament, beating Argentina 1-0 in the final. Italy
wins the third-place play-off 2-1 over England.
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1991 16–30 November: The inaugural FIFA Women’s World Cup is held,
hosted by China. It is won by the United States, beating Norway in the final.
Sweden finishes third and Germany fourth.
1992 The Laws of the Game are changed so that the goalkeeper may no
longer handle a pass from a teammate.
1993 10 April: A plane carrying Zambia’s national team to a World Cup
qualifier in Senegal crashes into the sea following a refueling stop on the
coast of Gabon. Eighteen members of the team die.
1994 17 June–17 July: The United States hosts the FIFA World Cup for
the first time, bringing record crowds to the tournament. The final is decided
by a penalty shoot-out for the first time after a scoreless draw, with Brazil
prevailing over Italy. Sweden wins the third-place play-off match 4-0 over
Bulgaria.
1995 5–18 June: The second FIFA Women’s World Cup takes place in
Sweden. It is won by Norway, with Germany finishing as runners-up. The
United States takes third place, and China comes in fourth.
1996 21 July–1 August: A women’s soccer tournament takes place at the
Summer Olympic Games in Athens for the first time as an official competi-
tion and is won by the United States, defeating China in the final 2-1.
1997 The International Football Association Board approves a revised ver-
sion of the Laws of the Game, with the text modernized and cut in length by
30 percent.
1998 Joseph Sepp Blatter is elected as the eighth president of FIFA. 10
June–12 July: France hosts their second FIFA World Cup and wins it for the
first time, beating Brazil 3-0 in the final. Croatia wins the third-place play-off
2-1 over the Netherlands.
1999 19 June–10 July: The third edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup
is held in the United States. The hosts win the tournament, defeating China
in the final in a penalty shoot-out. Brazil finishes in third place and Norway
fourth.
2000 5–14 January: The FIFA Club World Cup, then called the FIFA Club
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World Championship, is held for the first time in Brazil. Two Brazilian teams
contest the final, with Vasco de Gama from Rio de Janeiro beating Corinthi-
ans of São Paulo in the final after a penalty shoot-out.
2002 31 May–30 June: The FIFA World Cup finals are held in Asia for
the first time, with the Republic of Korea and Japan acting as cohosts. Brazil
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wins their fifth FIFA World Cup title, beating West Germany 2-0 in the final.
Turkey takes third place after beating the Republic of Korea 3-2.
2003 20 September–12 October: The United States hosts the FIFA Wom-
en’s World Cup for the second consecutive time. Germany wins the competi-
tion, defeating Sweden in the final. The United States finishes in third place
and Canada in fourth.
2006 9 June–9 July: Germany hosts the World Cup, which is won by Italy
over France in a penalty shoot-out after the final ends in a draw. Germany
wins the third-place play-off, beating Portugal 3-1.
2007 23 September–13 October: China plays host to the FIFA Women’s
World Cup for the second time. Germany wins the tournament, beating Bra-
zil 2-0 in the final. The United States finishes in third place and Norway in
fourth.
2010 11 June–11 July: The FIFA World Cup takes place on the African
continent for the first time, hosted by South Africa. It is won by Spain, claim-
ing their first FIFA World Cup title. The Netherlands finish in second place,
Germany in third, and Uruguay in fourth.
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Introduction
the world that truly justifies why soccer is so often called “the global game.”
FIFA’s 208 member nations number more than the United Nations or the
International Olympic Committee can boast as members. FIFA’s 2006 “Big
Count,” a global survey of soccer participation worldwide, found 270 million
active participants in the sport, almost 4 percent of the world’s population.
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Intensely passionate fan bases of club and national teams embed the sport
deeply into the social fabric in most countries.
At first glance, soccer, today a vast, commercialized modern game in the
globalized 21st century with hundreds of millions of participants around the
world, bears little resemblance to the provincial, amateur form of the game
first codified in mid-19th-century Britain. Yet at its heart, soccer retains the
same essence that it had at its modern birth: it remains a simple sport, with
the game consisting of two teams trying to kick a ball into a goal at either
end of a rectangular field bounded by lines. Indeed, so simple is the act of
kicking a round object with some kind of target in mind that the game has
antecedents that stretch back millennia—forms of the game played by numer-
ous civilizations in ways largely lost to the sands of time—with the basics
of the game invented many times over in many different parts of the world.
It is the simplicity of the game of soccer that explains the remarkable rise of
its popularity worldwide since the 19th century and the many forms in which
it existed before then. Feet and a ball are all that is required for recreational
play, and not a lot more for organized games, unlike the complex and more
expensive equipment and facilities needed for other modern sports such as
American football, cricket, or hockey.
It is no surprise, then, that organized games along the lines of modern-day
soccer in its most basic element—a ball being kicked by competing parties—
have been played for thousands of years. The first known organized games
of anything close to the form of modern soccer came during the Han dynasty
in China (206 BCE—220 AD) in a form of the game known as cuju (literally
meaning “kick ball”). In this game, two teams played with a stitched leather
ball (stuffed with fur, feathers, or hemp), attempting to propel the ball into
goals at either end of a marked field, with use of the players’ feet a central
element of play. It was a game enjoyed by the army and the upper classes in
China, all the way up to the royal household. Similar forms of the game soon
spread to Korea, Japan, and the Malay Peninsula. Variations on cuju—with a
hollow ball becoming more commonly used as time passed—continued to be
played under later Chinese imperial dynasties until the establishment of the
Ming dynasty in 1368 AD, when the game began to be neglected, eventually
disappearing altogether.
In the 13th century, Japan’s form of cuju, known as kemari, was the first
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sport in Japan to become standardized and organized, from its field of play to
the equipment, techniques, costume, and customs attached to it. Kemari was
a competitive game, but it was less like modern soccer than was the original
form of cuju in China: the aim was not to shoot the ball into a goal, but for a
circle of players to keep a hollow ball in the air as long as possible by kicking
it upwards, a stylish and graceful pastime. It was a skilled game that relied
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introduced at the school in the early 19th century. Other schools like Eton,
in 1815, also began to write down rules to more clearly define a previously
unruly game. These public-school games influenced the rule makers who cre-
ated the basis for the formal Laws of the Game that provide the rules under
which soccer is played today, and these founders learned the game as players
or teachers at English elite public schools. The game developed there and
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