where was soccer invented?
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In china in the early ages where they used to stuff the skin of deers and some other animals with tiny rocks and form a sphere then kick it around into small holes. It was then transfered to the british who then made it world wide and spread it all around the world..\n\nSure of it and i can bet on my life..
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American football derives directly from European football and rugby in the late 1800s and most likely, even though the rules changed over the past 120 years, the name stuck. "Soccer" is a contraction for the phrase "association football", a word I believe actually began in England, not America.
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England - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer
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Volleyball was "invented" in the U.S.
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The chinese invented football in the 2nd century BC during the Hun Dynasty.  Contrary to popular belief that the English invented football!
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BRASIL (the official birthplace of entertaining soccer!!!!)
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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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Soccer is the term used for the FIFA governed sport in countries like Australia, America, Canada, where they have other sport called football, with other rules.
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The CHINESE, then the GREEKS and the ROMANS (and some other civilizations all over). Then the modern Football with the ENGLISH and then THE WORLD.\n\nHistory info:\nAssociation football, soccer or simply football. The Laws of the Game are based on efforts made in the mid-19th century to standardise the rules of the widely varying games of football played at the independent schools of England.\n\nDocumented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC.\n\nIt describes a practice known as tsu chu (Traditional Chinese:蹴鞠 or 蹴踘 ; Pinyin: cù jū) which involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles. It was not a game as such but more of a spectacle for the amusement of the Emperor and it may have been performed as long as 3000 years ago.\n\nThe Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some of which involved the use of the feet.\n\nEvidence from many ancient societies Chinese, Greek, Mayan, and Egyptian reveals that kicking games like soccer was played in those cultures. The modern game of soccer began in the 19th century in England, where a variety of football games developed, all of which involved both handling and kicking.\n\nMany 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. \n\nOne 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\nThe 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. \n\nWhile 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.
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It's a contraction of 'Association Football.' The term originated in England in 1863, because there were already other forms of football at the time. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa also call it 'soccer' or 'association football.' Italy calls it 'calcio.'
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All of these answers are wrong.  The US did not invent the term "soccer" - the Brits did.  In the early 1800s, the game of rugby was invented.  In a football/soccer game at Rugby, a kid picked up the ball and started running around - the other kids chased him.  Eventually the game became known as "rugby football".  \n\nAt the time traditional football/soccer, teams played in an association (before there were any leagues).  To distinguish the two footballs, people called them "rugby football" and "association football".  In some circles, association football acquired the slang term "soccer" - an abbreviation for (a)socc football.  Eventually rugby football became "rugby" and association football was "football".\n\nHowever, some still used the term soccer.  The US is not the only country to call the game soccer.  Australia, Canada, and Ireland all have their own forms of "football" i.e. Aussie Rules Football, Gaelic Football, so they also call football 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.
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Soccer! Its worldwide.
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THE WORD SOCCER IS FROM BRITISH ORIGIN YOU  AND ADOPTED BY AMERICAN  PEOPLE, YOU CAN SEE THE ORIGIN  OF THE WORD SOCCER AND WHY IT WAS FORMED IN THIS LINK http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990806
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Soccer is what the Americans call Football in order to differentiate it from "American Football" which is a completely different game.\n\nFootball is a British invented sport with a huge worldwide following now where two teams of eleven players try to kicj a round ball into the other teams net.\n\nAmerican Football has more in common with Rugby Football where two teams of players run with, carry and throw an egg shaped ball to each other and attempt to touch it down behind the goal or kick it over the goal.\n\nRugby football was invented at Rugby School in England when someone picked up the ball during a normal game of football and ran with it.\n\nThe origins of football are thought to have been in the middle ages when baying crowds would compete to kick the severed head of someone who had been executed around the streets.\n\nNot much has changed in europe!!
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soccer is a big one over there
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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