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The English Federation (FA) today celebrates its 150th anniversary in the same space in central London where exactly a century ago and half a handful of men agreed on the rules of modern football.
That tavern has followed a similar evolution that gave birth to the sport, a pastime for British university has become a mass spectacle in which its stars enjoy fame and millionaire salaries.
After several months in which there have been parties and commemorative events around the 150th anniversary of the FA, the body tops celebrations with dinner on the day of its founding on October 26, which assists the chairman of honor, Prince William.
Some of the biggest names in football are scheduled to be present at the event, including President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, his counterpart in the UEFA, Michel Platini, and various historical English players as George Cohen, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst, the three world champions in 1966.
It will be a lot busier act that gathering in which incipient eleven representatives of English clubs were found around a table to write the thirteen original rules governing football for a century and a half.
The first secretary of the FA, Ebenezer Morley, a lawyer exercise in London who had founded the Barnes FC in 1862, wrote these thirteen commandments in a book that is currently valued at 2.5 million pounds (3 million euros) and that attendees the dinner will have the chance to see.
Of the eleven clubs who signed the rules written by Morley only one remains, the Civil Service, who currently plays for a championship this month semiprofessional and starred in the only football game that was played in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Queen Elizabeth II personally gave his permission for the Civil Service exercise disputed on the lawn of the Palace a game against the Polytechnic FC, one of the oldest clubs in England, founded in 1873.
The Federation has prepared months in advance of their anniversary celebrations and met in London this week to various descendants of the representatives of English clubs who founded the organization, some of whom came to London from countries like New Zealand and the United States.
The FA, which describes exercise itself as a nonprofit organization, moves currently a budget of about 100 million pounds per year (118 million euros) and represents about seven million players of various categories, 300,000 and 27,000 coaches arbitrators.
A year ago, the agency exercise opened its new headquarters in Staffordshire (central England), a center of high performance which has invested 131 million euros and operating base serves 24 national teams for English, since the absolute selections until junior category, exercise both male and female.
The brand new complex also serves as headquarters for a school exercise that offers courses for coaches and sports medicine professionals, psychology and sports science.
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