How football Came to Africa and Nigeria- History you may want to know!

FOR the third year running three English sides have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.
English football dominance at club level is so great that world ruling body Fifa wants to rewrite EU employment laws to limit how many foreigners can be on a team.
When Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal kick off in the semis it would be hard to pick 11 English players from ALL the starting line-ups. We've tried it.

But it was English sailors, soldiers, railway engineers and academics of Victorian England who took football around the world.

That’s why there are clubs called RIVER PLATE and Boca JUNIORS in Argentina and GRASSHOPPERS and YOUNG BOYS in Switzerland.
After the FA issued its first laws of the game in 1863, English railway workmen took a set to Argentina. They formed Buenos Aires FC in 1865.
River Plate was formed in 1901 after a founder saw English players having a kickabout using crates marked The River Plate as goalposts. Boca Juniors set up in 1905. In 1882 Uruguay got its first club, set up in capital Montevideo by an English lecturer.

Top teams were River Plate, Albion FC, Montevideo Wanderers and Liverpool FC. The last two still play.

English sailors played in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1887. The local Petrograd team lost to English residents team Ostrov. The footballing empire also stretched from Brazil to Ghana, Iran, India, China and Japan.
In 1872 the first French club started in Le Havre after locals saw our sailors playing. German universities took it in 1875 via students from Oxford. Grasshopper-Club Zurich was formed in Switzerland in 1886 by English student Tom Griffith.

In Spain, Huelva was formed in 1889 by British miners and Real Madrid was started in 1897 by graduates from Cambridge and Oxford.

FC Barcelona was set up in 1899 with English founders. In Turin, Italy, Juventus began in 1897 and changed strip to match Notts County’s six years later.

And Inter Milan — formed in 1908 — have even worn the cross of St George on their strip.
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