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1. The Laws of the Game 2024/25 (FIFA)

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2. History of Football (FIFA Museum)

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1. Volleyball Rules and Regulations (FIVB)

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2. The History and Development of Volleyball

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©2024 United States Volleyball. All Rights Reserved.

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1. Official Basketball Rules 2024 (FIBA)

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2. History of Basketball (Naismith to NBA)

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3The Origins of Football: History, Ideology and the Making of ‘The People’s Game’

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The Origins of Football: History, Ideology and the Making of ‘The People’s Game’

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Recent scholarship on the origins of association football has been marked by a highly ideological debate on its ‘class’ nature. The traditional story – of a gam

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3. History of Volleyball: From origins to the Olympics

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History of volleyball: From origins to the Olympics

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Charting the history of volleyball; from its origins in the USA in 1895 as a game called Mintonette to an Olympic sport in 1964, here’s all you need to know.

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3. Volleyball History: William G. Morgan

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Volleyball History: William G. Morgan | PDF | Volleyball | Team Sports

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Volleyball originated in the United States in 1895 when William G. Morgan created the sport by combining elements of other sports. The first official volleyball game was played in 1896 at Springfield College. Since then, volleyball has grown tremendously in popularity worldwide with over 800 million players. Key events in volleyball history include its introduction to the Olympics in 1964 and the addition of beach volleyball to the Olympics in 1996.

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4. Networks of international football: communities, evolution and globalization of the game

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Networks of international football: communities, evolution and globalization of the game

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As the most popular sport around the globe, the game of football has recently intrigued much research interest to explore and distill useful and appealing information from the sport. Network science and graph-centric methods have been previously applied to study the importance of football players and teams. In this paper, for the first time we study the macroscopic evolution of the football society from a complex network point of view. Football game records within a time window of over a century were collected and expressed in a graph format, where participant teams are represented by graph nodes and the games between them are the graph edges. We carry out community detection and temporal analysis to reveal the dynamic features and the community structures embedded within the football network, offering the evidence of a continuously expanding football society. Spatio-temporal analysis is also implemented to unveil the temporal states that represent distinct development stages in the football history. Our analysis suggests that the evolution of the game receives considerable impact not only from major sport events, but also from multiple social and political incidents. The game of football and its evolution reflect significant historical transitions and turning points, and can provide a novel perspective for the study of the worldwide globalization process.