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A SHORT HISTORY AND THE BASIC RULES OF THE WORLD GAME
FOOTBALL-THE WORLD'S MOST WATCHED SPORT Nobody can say with any certainty where or
when soccer originated but we do know that the earlier variations of what
later became known soccer were played almost three thousand years ago.
One of the earliest forms of soccer in which the players kicked a ball on a small field has been traced as far back as 1004 B.C. in Japan. the Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately fifty B.C. that mentions games very much like soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese used a leather ball and it is known for sure that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the old Japanese capital Kyoto. The Romans played a game that closely resembled the game we play today. The early Olympic games in ancient Rome featured 27 men on a side who competed so strongly that t2/3 of them had to be hospitalized after a 50 minute match.
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While ancient historians kept meticulous
records of such events as wars and religious movements, they seemed had
little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or other sports
for that matter so no one can say with any certainty how soccer seems to
have spread from Asia to Europe.
When the game finally did get to England, it had acquired a bad enough reputation among British royalty that the government sometimes passed laws against playing soccer. In King Edward's reign of England (1307-1327), laws were enacted that threatened imprisonment to anyone caught playing soccer. King Edward's proclamation said:" For as much as there is a great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city future." |
Evidently judged to be indecent and vulgar, soccer was at times suppressed by the English sheriffs who followed royal orders describing the game as a useless practice. King Henry IV and Henry VIII also passed laws banning the sport, and Queen Elizabeth I "had soccer players jailed for a week, with follow-up church penance"
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