Don Bennett began modern amputee football in Seattle, USA, in 1980. Bill Barry created Amputee Soccer International, initially with tournaments between USA, Canada and El Salvador. Soon teams from other countries joined the World Cup. In the 1990s the international game had to be revived after frictions had led to the World Cup being suspended. In 1998 Rick Hofmann launched www.ampsoccer.org. Later that year, at a meeting in Moscow, the International Amputee Football Federation was established, with Georgy Lunarcharsky as its first president. The rules and constitution were drawn up. Further tournaments took place, but funding and international misunderstandings remain a problem. The name changed to the World Amputee Football Federation. In 2007 an All Africa Championships was held in Sierra Leone, and the Amputee Football Federation of Africa was formed. The next World Cup will be in Antalya, Turkey.