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Portal:Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States, and sometimes in Ireland and New Zealand); Australian rules football; Gaelic football; gridiron football (specifically American football, Arena football, or Canadian football); International rules football; rugby league football; and rugby union football. These various forms of football share, to varying degrees, common origins and are known as "football codes".

There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, or prehistoric ball games played in many different parts of the world. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the 19th century, itself an outgrowth of medieval football. The expansion and cultural power of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British influence outside the directly controlled Empire. By the end of the 19th century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage. In 1888, the Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional football associations. During the 20th century, several of the various kinds of football grew to become some of the most popular team sports in the world. (Full article...)

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@Celia Homeford: Thank you for preparing this draft. You forgot to say who you are or to introduce your work, like "Hi, this is my proposed new version of this portal: does anyone wish to comment? ~~~~"
My comment is that I like this version: it is a great improvement over the present boring-looking disambig page. Since it seems we are to retain a Portal:Football, this proposed version is what I think it should look like.
As per the MfD I still question what is the role of a Portal:Football. In what circumstances do we want readers to be led to this, rather than to the full-dress portals for the main individual football codes? As regards mainspace articles this portal is currently an orphan, as I have changed the portal links in the small minority of football-related articles that previously linked to this portal (for example, Belgium national under-21 football team). Which pages does anyone think should have a link to this portal?: Noyster (talk), 20:52, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops! Thanks for commenting!

It could perhaps be linked from Football and Football (disambiguation). I agree with you on its uncertain purpose. If it's just going to be for disambiguation and navigation, another possibility is to redirect it to Template:Sports portals browsebar, which has the main individual football portals on it. Celia Homeford (talk) 07:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Drawback of linking from Football is that the new version would repeat the lead of that very article. – I think we should go ahead and adopt Celia's new version. I prefer this over redirecting to {{Sports portals browsebar}}, as that would land the reader amongst sports unrelated to football. No article should link to this page, but as pointed out in the MfD, someone, somewhere could input "Portal:Football" into the search engine: Noyster (talk), 13:25, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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