Who really invented soccer?
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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. \n\n\nSo i guess the answer is the japanese
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SOCCER OWNS ALL OTHER SPORTS. ENOUGH SAID.
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The word "soccer" comes from "As[soc]iation Football," which is the formal version of the game. It was adopted by the Football Association (FA) in 1863.
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They invented the game 'CRICKET'.They were learned the game 'SOCCER'. If they win a cricket series, then they have craze about 'CRICKET'.If they win the football league, then they have a craze about 'SOCCER'.Now, there is soccer WC foor them and they have no matches in cricket. So now, the bigger game is 'SOCCER'.
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This probably is not true but....\n\nFootball was going to be used for a new game in which players carried the ball with their hands most of the time in America.  Thus soccer was the name given to the previous game known around the world as football.
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Have you ever wonder how soccer / football games get into our life? When and where is the origin of this game from? Why is it so many peoples in the world crazy about this game? Almost every culture has reference to the history of soccer.\n\n     The origin of football / soccer can be found in every corner of geography and history. The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking, and many more played a ball game long before our era. The Chinese played "football"  games date as far back as 3000 years ago. The Ancient Greeks and the Roman used football  games to sharpen warriors for battle. In south and Central America a game called "Tlatchi" once flourished. \n\n     But it was in England that soccer / football really begin to take shape. It all started in 1863 in England, when two football association (association football and rugby football) split off on their different course. Therefore, the first Football Association was founded in England. \n\nOn October 1963, eleven London clubs and schools sent their representatives to the Freemason's Tavern. These representatives were intent on clarifying the muddle by establishing a set of fundamental rules, acceptable to all parties, to govern the matches played amongst them. This meeting marked the birth of The Football Association. The eternal dispute concerning shin-kicking, tripping and carrying the ball was discussed thoroughly at this and consecutive meetings until eventually on 8 December the die-hard exponents of the Rugby style took their final leave. They were in the minority anyway. They wanted no part in a game that forbade tripping, shin-kicking and carrying the ball. A stage had been reached where the ideals were no longer compatible. On 8 December 1863, football and rugby finally split. Their separation became totally irreconcilable six years hence when a provision was included in the football rules forbidding any handling of the ball (not only carrying it). \n\n     Only eight years after its foundation, The Football Association already had 50 member clubs. The first football competition in the world was started in the same year - the FA Cup, which preceded the League Championship by 17 years. \n\n     International matches were being staged in Great Britain before football had hardly been heard of in Europe. The first was played in 1872 and was contested by England and Scotland. This sudden boom of organized football accompanied by staggering crowds of spectators brought with it certain problems with which other countries were not confronted until much later on. Professionalism was one of them. The first moves in this direction came in 1879, when Darwin, a small Lancashire club, twice managed to draw against the supposedly invincible Old Etonians in the FA Cup, before the famous team of London amateurs finally scraped through to win at the third attempt. Two Darwin players, the Scots John Love and Fergus Suter, are reported as being the first players ever to receive remuneration for their football talent. This practice grew rapidly and the Football Association found itself obliged to legalise professionalism as early as 1885. This development predated the formation of any national association outside of Great Britain (namely, in the Netherlands and Denmark) by exactly four years. \n\nAfter the English Football Association, the next oldest are the Scottish FA (1873), the FA of Wales (1875) and the Irish FA (1880). Strictly speaking, at the time of the first international match, England had no other partner association against which to play. When Scotland played England in Glasgow on 30 November 1872, the Scottish FA did not even exist - it was not founded for another three months. The team England played that day was actually the oldest Scottish club team, Queen's Park. \n\nThe spread of football outside of England, mainly due to the British influence abroad, started slow, but it soon gathered momentum and spread rapidly to al
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the first documented evidence of the game of football was in scotland in the 14th century where the king declared that "the golf and futbal be not usit and cryit dunit" which basically means that that nobody was allowed to play or talk about it in a bid to get more ppl to learn archery to help our failing army.\n\nso documentary evidence shows that the first mention of the game was in scotland but the first football association where the modern game of "soccer" originated was formed in london, england in the 19th century what they don't tell you is that it was founded by men from all over the british isles and was, in fact predominately scottish.\n\nthese are the facts as i have come to find them, take from them what u will.
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Depends on what you mean by football :-)\n\nThere were several games in ancient times where people kicked balls around with their feet and were probably the originator of both soccer or football (the american version - I don't know what the rest of the world calls our football).\n\nAccording to wikipedia in 2nd century china they played a game very similar to our modern games and probably was the ancestor to both.\n\nModern soccer dates to at least as early as 1519, and modern (american) football to around 1820.  Both took a little time to move from school fitness programs to officially endorsed sports with paid atheletes.\n\nThe link below gives some additional details.\n\nEnjoy and game on.  :-)
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Football was invented in England, but not in a University.\n\nRugby was invented in an English public school (Rugby, funnily enough) when a prat called Webb Ellis picked-up the football and ran with it. Everyone was so annoyed they jumped on him!\n\nFootball has always been a poor mans sport! It was originally played between villages, with no limit to the number of players. A pigs bladder was blown-up and tied and the object of the game was to get the bladder into the other village.\n\nThe British monarchy actually banned it because they were concerned that too many people were playing instead of practising archery (which was needed on the battle-field)!\n\nFinally the Football Association was formed and wrote some rules. Nearly all of the first teams were from the Midlands area of England and were formed by working-class men.\n\nArsenal, for example (although a bit later) was formed by factory workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich (employing 120,000 people at that time). They started by kicking a ball about at lunchtime in Dial Square and later formed a team.\n\nSo to your question. Yes Football was invented in England, and it's spiritual home is still there. I would not say it belongs to England though, it is a world game (note please USA) and belongs to everyone.
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In medieval England there used to be a chaotic game which football is based on - all the yokels would kick a sheep's bladder around the place from one end of the village to the other. \n\nHowever, other countries developed their own game involving kicking a ball so it's hard to say where it definitively started.
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Everybody loves football/fútbol/balompié.    All  continents: Africa, Antartica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania (www.countriesandcities.com/continents/) have long traditions for this sport. If we conclude that our world population has 6 billion people, I dare say that at least 4 billion people love soccer! I really don't know about India (with a huge population), The U.S. should be included now because the people of this country have been increasingly getting interested in the sport. According to history, England invented the sport, but there is evicence that some tribes from Mexico used to play a sport similar to soccer.
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Arguably soccer was invented in London in 1863 when men sat down to codify the games that they had enjoyed playing at their "public schools". An association called "The Football Association" was formed. The word "soccer" is short for "Association Football", as distinct from "Rugby Football", which was another sport codified by ex public schoolboys in the late 19th century.\nThere's a pretty clear evidence that some ancient civilizations developed a game somewhat similar to contemporary football. However, the "modern" football (or soccer) was invented in the year 1848 in the Cambridge University by a bunch of students, who were bored by other games and decided to set some rules. The game didn't resemble today's football since catching the ball with your hands was allowed. Despite that, we can say that they were one of the first people who invented the game.
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Football was invented in England and prefected in Brazil.
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how is this related to soccer?
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>>>Rob L is correct!!!\nSport Organisation for Collective Contributions and Equal Rights (SOCCER) is anacronym created in South Africa and it has NOTHING to do with the origin of soccer (the game).\nSee this pages:\n\nhttp://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-12175.html\nhttp://electionresources.org/za/provinces.php?election=1994\n\n and search for the word "soccer".
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So this website gives a good overview \n\nhttp://www.all-soccer-info.com/\n\nBy and large football (or soccer as it is known in the USA) originated in its current form through a series of rules and standards in England in the 1800's. \n\nThe formal competitions created in England quickly spread throughout most of the world, with the same rules being adopted across the globe.
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Yes but Soccer was in fact invented as a name in the UK even though we call the game football.\n\n\n\nThe English still called it a game of "football" because the ball was played primarily with the feet but in the late 18th Century, the word, "soccer", was first used by a student of Oxford University by the name of Charles Wreford Brown. The students at Oxford were known for using slang where they added "er" to the end of words that they intentionally shortened. The game of Rugby was called "rugger". Brown shortened the word "association" and added "er" and the term "soccer" was born.\n\nhttp://ezinearticles.com/?The-Origin-of-Soccer&id=244527