I decided it was silly to write my own version of soccer history. Why rewrite something that has already been done well before?
Here are excerpts from various websites describing the history of soccer in ancient and medieval times.
From Tetrabrazil.com
”The earliest evidence of soccer dates from about 200 in China, where a form of the game was played that emphasized the ability of players to dribble a leather ball. The Greeks and Romans also participated in a variation of soccer that permitted ball carrying.
The modern-day outgrowth of soccer is known to have started in England, and the first ball reportedly was the head of a dead Danish brigand. Although King Edward III prohibited soccer in 1365 because of its excessive violence and for military reasons playing took time away from archery practice the game had become too popular to be curtailed.”
From http://worldsoccer.about.com/cs/historyandstats/a/sochist.htm
”There is documentary evidence that a game or......
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