Ancient Kicks: A History Of Soccer

Ancient Kicks: A History Of Soccer

Ancient Kicks: A History Of Soccer

Soccer is one of, if not the most popular sports in the world today. Regardless of age, location, or race, soccer fans across the globe cheer on their favorite clubs with signature obnoxiousness and hooliganism. But the real question is, where and when did such a sport actually come to be? It is uncertain as to soccer's actual time and place of invention, but it is well known that variations of the sport existed as long as 3000 years ago!

One such variation of the sport is recorded as being played in Japan around 1000 B.C., and there are even ancient texts from China describing a game resembling soccer between Japanese and Chinese teams in 50 B.C.. The Chinese conducted their variation of the sport with a leather ball filled with hair, and there was an actual soccer game played in Kyoto, Japan in 611 A.D. The Romans even had a variation of soccer in their Olympics, in which each team had 27 players, two thirds of which had to be hospitalized after a 50 minute long match because competition was so fierce and brutal! Although there are records of certain incidences of the game occurring, people of the time were not as concerned with recording soccer history as that of religion or war, and thus it is quite difficult to determine just how the sport spread across the globe.

During King Edward occupation of the throne of England in the 1300's he declared playing soccer a punishable offense. King Henry IV, King Henry VIII, and Queen Elizabeth I also passed laws jailing soccer players for up to a week at a time! The sport did not slow down, however, and by 1681 became officially sanctioned by England. By the 1800's the game had become incredibly popular, so popular in fact that large teams would storm and rampage through villages. One account of a soccer match in Derbyshire, England in 1829 said that the game had "broken skins, broken heads, torn coats, and lost hats." Records show that first actual rules for the game were used at Eton College in 1815, and slowly spread to all colleges around England, commonly known as the Cambridge rules.

Now soccer is played and viewed by more than 8 million people around the globe, on every continent (except Antarctica) and almost every country. What started out as a somewhat rag-tag, small sport played in Asia, moved through Europe only to become an illegal sport in England, quickly spread throughout the world and is now arguably the most popular sport on the globe. If it's any indication of the sport's popularity, the most recent World Cup was watched by more than 33 million people worldwide for 27 days, totaling more viewers than the Olympics, or the total of American baseball, football, and basketball championship viewers combined!

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