{"id":2522,"date":"2021-01-21T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:18:11","slug":"the-final-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2021\/01\/21\/the-final-rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 2<sup>nd<\/sup> 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International football has a long history \u2013 well over a century \u2013 but it was disorganised. Odd matches some with trophies meant little. However, organised football tournaments actually pre-dated the establishing of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Modern Olympic Games was the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. It began in 1896. Four years later football made its bow. It was a far cry from what most think international football to be. The first two Olympic Games Football Tournaments bore no resemblance to the World Cups \u2013 Official and Unofficial. They were very limited club competitions \u2013 hardly worth commemorating, but they would develop into something important in the development of the world\u2019s favourite sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Final Rehearsal \u2013 the pre-War tournaments paved the way for football to establish itself. But there was an obvious flaw \u2013 the national team tournaments 1908 and 1912 were exclusively European.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Final Rehearsal for the Unofficial World Cup would be silenced by the War to end all wars. But as this series will show, the Olympic Games once played a very important part in football\u2019s development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 2nd 2021) International football has a long history \u2013 well over a century \u2013 but it was disorganised. Odd<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}