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Association football in Asia
According to FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), the earliest form of football (soccer) was played in China and it was dated back to centuries. The game was called cuju and it was played as the same way as football - without using hands or arms and a player had to kick the ball through two goal posts to score a goal where the ball was made of leather.
Football in Asia is enormously diversified and it banks on various surroundings and periods. During the 21st century, football is emerging as a prominent sport in the Asian countries, with Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, India introducing the Super League in 2013 and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates' huge investment in clubs overseas.
Asia has the largest fan following of football than any other continent which is approximately 800 million or around 17% of all Asians and it also exhibits 32% of the viewership for the English Premier League.
The former President of FIFA, for the year 1998–2005, Sepp Blatter asserted his confidence that the future of football must lie in Asia because half of the world's population is in Asia. The official slogan of the Asian Football Confederation is ‘The Future is Asia’, and the AFC aims to develop football in Asia even more in the coming years.
Football is the second most popular sport in Japan and Japan currently ranks 15th in the Men's FIFA world rankings.
Before the 1980s Japan was undistinguished as a football team and it was not considered to be one of the powerhouses in football. This was before a former American football player, Tom Byer, who retired after a short career in football mainly in Asia, took in charge of the youth development department of the Japan National football team.
Since then, Japan has qualified for the last 6 FIFA World Cups and they also managed to win four out of the last six Asian Football Cups and because of their success, the Japanese National team is now considered as one of the top football teams in Asia. Also Japan and South Korea together hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Japan's J1 League became visible as one of the most popular and prominent soccer leagues internationally during the 1990s.
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Association football in Asia
According to FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), the earliest form of football (soccer) was played in China and it was dated back to centuries. The game was called cuju and it was played as the same way as football - without using hands or arms and a player had to kick the ball through two goal posts to score a goal where the ball was made of leather.
Football in Asia is enormously diversified and it banks on various surroundings and periods. During the 21st century, football is emerging as a prominent sport in the Asian countries, with Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, India introducing the Super League in 2013 and Qatar and the United Arab Emirates' huge investment in clubs overseas.
Asia has the largest fan following of football than any other continent which is approximately 800 million or around 17% of all Asians and it also exhibits 32% of the viewership for the English Premier League.
The former President of FIFA, for the year 1998–2005, Sepp Blatter asserted his confidence that the future of football must lie in Asia because half of the world's population is in Asia. The official slogan of the Asian Football Confederation is ‘The Future is Asia’, and the AFC aims to develop football in Asia even more in the coming years.
Football is the second most popular sport in Japan and Japan currently ranks 15th in the Men's FIFA world rankings.
Before the 1980s Japan was undistinguished as a football team and it was not considered to be one of the powerhouses in football. This was before a former American football player, Tom Byer, who retired after a short career in football mainly in Asia, took in charge of the youth development department of the Japan National football team.
Since then, Japan has qualified for the last 6 FIFA World Cups and they also managed to win four out of the last six Asian Football Cups and because of their success, the Japanese National team is now considered as one of the top football teams in Asia. Also Japan and South Korea together hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Japan's J1 League became visible as one of the most popular and prominent soccer leagues internationally during the 1990s.