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A Amateur Football Alliance occurs as County Football Association in England.
These are unusual among County FAs within non existence depending in the particular geographical region. It was founded inside 1907, as a Amateur Football Defence Foundation, quickly changed to Amateur Football Association, once The FA required all county associations to admit agency clubs. Its aim wwhen, as a decline of amateurism at a highest levels of football placed inside, to protect & preserve the original amateur spirit. It prides itself in the skill & fight of its leagues, & on its traditions of fair play & respect for opponents & match officials. Numerous leagues however maintawithin local system that necessitate clubs to provide food & drink to their opponents & match officials fallowing the match in a club or even public house.
3 AFA clubs, Old Etonians and Old Carthusians, who presently play in the Arthurian League, and Clapham Rovers have won the FA Cup. Preceding members of the AFA include Ipswich Town, Barnet, Cambridge City, the Casuals and the Corinthians. Sir Stanley Rous, who was president of FIFA, was also a president of the AFA.
A AFA's heartland is within London and the Home Counties, but it has member clubs throughout a united states.
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