{"id":109658,"date":"2017-12-09T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:54:08","slug":"first-italian-football-championship-1898-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-italian-football-championship-1898-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First Italian football championship, 1898"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/97\/FIGC_logo.svg\/356px-FIGC_logo.svg.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/97\/FIGC_logo.svg\/356px-FIGC_logo.svg.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 130px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 89px;\" \/><\/a>The  first official Italian association football competition was played in  entirety on 8th May 1898. The newly formed Italian Football Federation  (Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio, or FIGC) endorsed the event.  Earlier that decade there had been other football competitions staged,  initially by teams of English emigrants and later by Italian teams;  however, they played in separate leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Turin  hosted the first FIGC sponsored competition and supplied three of the  four competing teams: FBC Torinese, Ginnastica Torino, and   Internazionale Torino. The fourth team and winners of the competition,  the Genoa Cricket and Football Club, was the oldest in the country. The  team included three Englishmen, one player from the Island of Guernsey  and another from Switzerland. <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the story of Italian football see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.figc.it\/en\/3149\/2077\/HpSezioneConMenuSX.shtml\">the FIGC history pages<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first official Italian association football competition was played in entirety on 8th May 1898. The newly formed Italian Football Federation (Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio, or FIGC) endorsed the event. Earlier that decade there had been other football competitions staged, initially by teams of English emigrants and later by Italian teams; however, they played in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}