Introduction
Football is one of the most common sports. It is known by the fact that it is a general word that describes a large number of sports that involve using the ball in order to score a goal. Anyhow, there is a type of football that is more commonly used and this is named – “association football”. From this type, it derives the other forms of football applicable to each state or region in part.
Football characteristics
Football is believed to be a “peasant’s game” as it si played by people from all social categories. Anyhow, as it is the world’s most played sport – big leagues created around it. The first League to be created was in 1888 and it was founded in England. Despite of the various football forms, there are some common elements between them. These are – the number of people playing in a football team is between 11 and 18 players, in order to score the goal you need to move the ball to the opposite’s team gate, the goal is defended by the opposite team. There are some rules that a football player must know. Depending on the mistake they do, they are eligible for offside or free kick.
Due to the fact that the football black birth was harder as the racism problems exist from the beginning, it is essential to know that in order for the football black to be incorporated in this sport, football black college teams ought to be made. Until the mid 70’s it was rather hard for any black person to practice this sport and be remarked. Anyhow, with the opening of this college, football black players started to be remarked.
English football black startup
According to the history of England football, the first black footballer playing for England in an important game was back in the 1920’s. The name of this black football player, was Jack Leslie, who along the playing years, scored over 400 goals. Despite of the fact that there is no official claim on making race a consideration in selecting the England’s football team, there is firm evidence that race does matter. Someday, in the future it will probably come to be irrelevant and football black players, get to have more opportunities than they have nowadays. Some of the black football players that have played in the England’s teams, one can mention Viv Anderson who played in 1978 in the game against Czechoslovakia; Laurie Cunningham – who played his first game against Wales; Danny Thomas – played against Australia in 1983; and many others.
Making the racial problems disappear, one may see that besides France, England is another country that has a rather big number of black football players in the teams, throughout the years. The total number of football black players along the years, for England has got to 63 players till the mid 2011.
Black football managers
While nobody intends to recognize the simple fact, there is a problem with black football players and their role in the teams. It took a lot of time to recognize them as equal, and even now they are not regarded as such. This leads to the fact that it was a hard thing to accept a black high positioned football player. Out of the 92 football league clubs, just two of them had black managers, according to the 2007 results. British first black football manager is believed to be Tony Collins who managed Rochdale. Another black manager worth mentioning is Gullit.
This has led to a research according to which the racism is still existent in the football boardroom. While the black football players are able to play, they seem not to be competent to manage.
