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1. Shannan

   October 15th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

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   Many different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago.

   One of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto.

   The Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game.

   While historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.

2. Sebbon

   October 16th, 2008 at 2:42 am

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   here is a little tid bit “Games revolving around the kicking of a ball have been played in many countries throughout history. However, football is descended only from games played in Europe. The Roman games Harpastum may be a distant ancestor of football. Various forms of football were played in medieval Europe, though rules varied greatly by both period and location.” and if u want to learn more, you can write a more than adequate paper off of wikipedia!!

3. war_bloodline

   October 18th, 2008 at 2:23 am

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   Its roots go back to antiquity it was called Sphaira by the Greeks and call Ollis by the Romans. In Italy during the time of the renaissance a game that was in a small way like soccer (football)
   was called Calcio, from there it went to England. In England about sometime during thee 19th Century (1830-1850 sometime in there) The soccer as we know it today was played. The first soccer club was the Sheffield Football Club formed in the 1860’s. The first competition was the Football Association Challenge Cup, this was organized in about the 1870’s. The Federation Internationale de football association or better known as FIFA was formed in 1904. After that football (soccer) was off to a flying start.

4. bombenistic27

   October 21st, 2008 at 6:57 pm

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   Ollis.

   from Rome (also other versions from other cultures like Greece)

   was kinda different though…also very violent…but that set the backbone of what soccer/football is today

5. Abuda

   October 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 pm

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   Soccer was invented in England that is why they are nicknamed the birth place of soccer