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To the ends of the earth, cricket followed the Union Jack, which explains the game’s current popularity in Australia, South Asia, and the West Indies. Rugby football flourishes in other postcolonial cultures, such as New Zealand and South Africa, where the British once ruled. It was, however, association football’s destiny to become the world’s most widely played modern sport. From the British Isles, modern sports were diffused throughout the world.

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Sports that originally began elsewhere, such as tennis , were modernized and exported as if they too were raw materials imported for British industry to transform and then export as finished goods. Its unarmed techniques were especially prized within Chinese culture and were an important influence on the martial arts of Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Much less well known in the West are varma adi (“hitting the vital spots”) and other martial arts traditions of South Asia. In the early modern era, as unarmed combat became obsolete, the emphasis of Asian martial arts tended to shift back toward religion. Japanese kenjutsu (“techniques of the sword”) became kendō (“the way of the sword”). It is unlikely that the 7th-century Islamic conquest of North Africa radically altered the traditional sports of the region.

In 1904 Robert Guérin led a group of football enthusiasts in forming the Fédération Internationale de Football Association , which England’s insular Football Association was at first too arrogant to join. Football is the world’s most popular ball game, but, wherever American economic and culture influence has been dominant, the attraction to baseball, basketball, and volleyball has tended to exceed that to football. Baseball, for example, boomed in Cuba, where Nemesio Guilló introduced the game to his countrymen in 1863, and in Japan, where Horace Wilson, an American educator, taught it to his Japanese students in 1873. It was, however, only in the post-World War II world that U.S. influence generally overwhelmed British; only then did basketball and volleyball become globally popular.

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Association football, shown above, is a team sport which also provides opportunities to nurture physical fitness and social interaction skills. Preparing to host the World Cup of 1994, the USA played 91 friendlies in a crash course in international football – a plan that worked. CHELSEA slumped to a 2-1 defeat by newly-promoted Liverpool, featuring Ireland internationals Leanne Kiernan and Niamh Fahey, as the opening round of the Women’s Super League season was completed. On this week’s episode of The Left Wing, Will Slattery and Luke Fitzgerald are joined by Rúaidhrí O’Connor to discuss all the latest rugby news. Participation Design Toolkit Supporting sport organisations to deliver insight-driven and participant-centred plans, products and experiences.

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