Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the world, but it is exact origins are unknown. Some historians suggest that the sport was created as far back as 2500 BC, during which time the Greeks, Romans, and Chinese all appear to have partaken in games involving the controlling of a ball. The Romans played a game called Harpastum, in which there were no rules, strategies, or tactics. The objective of the game was to get the ball to the opposing team’s goal. The Greeks played a similar game called Episkyros. The Chinese played a game called Tsu-Chu, or kick ball, around the second and third centuries BC, in which players dribbles leather balls into a small net by kicking it. As Metzl and Micheli stated, soccer is the most popular participant …show more content…
They also provide opportunities for recognizing and displaying common traits as well as marking boundaries and reinforcing distinctiveness from others. Participation in sports, namely soccer, “helps immigrants retain a symbolic connection with their former ways of life and with their communities of origin, as well as shapes group identity, integrates the immigrant community, and maintains, revives, and sometimes invents “traditional” customs” (Stodolska). Soccer is more than a leisure activity: it is a cultural activity that provides to young players not only a link to “their past life or their parents’ past life and country, but it also helps to serve as a form of integration into a new and foreign culture” …show more content…
The sport has been used to unite and provide hope for people, and has also helped take players from waste grounds into clubs, which has a considerable impact on those involved. Certain charities utilize soccer in order to promote more positive attitudes and behavioral patterns in troubled areas, notably among young people affected by warfare and terrorism. In some areas of the Middle East, soccer has proven to be an integrative commune, particularly in nations that have experienced East considerable social disharmony. One refugee camp provided teen boys in a literacy camp a means to play organized soccer to use the participation in the sport as a “springboard to advance the boys’ academic growth and potential”
Foer vowed to show us how the game of soccer can impact different regions and cultures. He indicated us how these relationships (between different nations and beliefs), while there, are hard to apprehend on the global scale. But trough soccer, these relationships reveal themselves in a hesitant fashion.
Soccer is not seen like merely a game around the globe. People from all around the world seem to virtually integrate with the passion towards soccer. There is no denying that this sport is linked to the emotional, social and political aspects of life of a person. In his book, “How Soccer Explains the World”, Franklin Foer sheds light on all these facets by linking it with the concept of globalization. Soccer and globalization are both linked together by an American in this book for the Americans who are passionate about this game. Throughout his book, Foer has focused upon two theories: firstly, that world could be explained through soccer and secondly,
Soccer has been around for over 3000s years. The first game happened between the Barnes football club and Richmond football club. The game ended with a total score 0-0 draw in 1863. It was the first recorded game in the United States. Soccer was first started in China in 5000-300b.c where the military men would kick a ball stuffed with fur, they would kick the ball into a hole in the ground, the rules were no hands. The only different thing was that they called it Tsu Chu. The
This sport was first played in China by military forces during the 2nd century. Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world. Want to know why? Soccer is an easy sport to understand, it is a fun sport to play, and you meet a lot of friends through playing!
Franklin Foer the author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization is an important contributor of the small topic of the how soccer is related to the world. Foer from the New Republic who writes from time to time in the well known newspaper of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal had traveled around the world especially the continent of Europe, Asia, North and South America. Going from the topic of why the Islam religion, Islamic law, and religious paramilitary militia prohibits the passionate, die-hard Islamic women fans; from attending and/or watching soccer games and then partying hard like the men after the game if their country or favorite club wins. To the topic of how America relates to soccer when the middle class accepted this sport because of the little violence that they thought the sport contained and to how some Americans support writers such as Tom Weir from USA Today’s “that hating soccer is more American than apple pie, driving a pickup, or spending Saturday afternoons channel surfing with the remote control” (Foer 240). The majority of Americans that support this quote are the lower class, liberals, majority of sports reporters, and narrow minded Americans. These topics and/or chapters really show how soccer is creating more globalization around the world especially with Islamic women getting rid of their traditions and trying new things such as showing their passion for soccer. In addition, America is trying to pass its apple pie and watching American Football on a Sunday to watching beautiful game of soccer. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization is really divided into three groups; the first being the rivalries between clubs and human beings, sec...
Have you ever played soccer? I bet you did when you were little or possibly still do. Over 40% of Americans played it when they were little and a lot still play today. If you played it when you were little and want to learn more, than you are in the right place! Soccer started way back before 1365 we know that because in 1365 King Edward the third banned it because of the violence and indulgence.
Games similar to soccer were played in China as early as 400 B.C. In 200 A.D. the Romans played a game in which 2 teams tried to score by advancing the ball across a line on a field, which means no soccer goals. They passed the ball to one another, but not by kicking it. Also in the 1100's, London children played a form of soccer (World Book Encyclopedia, S p.73).
The origin of soccer in America has long been disputed. Some say that it was brought to America by immigrants. People claim that it was brought by the settlers of Jamestown, New Orleans, and Ellis Island. However, there is another reasonable source that people have discovered. It is have been revealed that the American Indians used to play a game similar to modern soccer called Pasuckuakohowog. It literally translates to “they gather to play ball with the foot”. In Pasuckuakohowog, there were goals that were a half-mile wide and a mile apart from each other. Games involved up to 500 people and were very dangerous. Records show that the game was played in the 17th century. This could prove that Pasuckuakohowog is what started it all for soccer in America.
In America, it all began in the industrial age, which brought long work weeks and boring jobs. The employees across the nation were in need of a break. Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, white American settlers began to participate in organized sports such as baseball, football, basketball, curling, and bowling. In as early as 1820, a game involving a bat, bases, and a ball was evolving in the
Games similar to soccer were played in China as early as 400 BC. In about 200 AD the Romans played a game in which two teams tried to score by advancing a ball across a line on the field. The Romans passed the ball to one another but they never kicked it. London children in about 1100 played a form of soccer in the streets. During the 1800’s the people of England played a game similar to soccer. Many rules changed and each person interpreted the rules differently. In 1848 a group of school representatives met at Trinity College in Cambridge and drew up the first of soccer rules. In 1863 English soccer clubs founded the Football Association. By the late 1800’s soccer began to spread to the rest of the world. The Canadian Soccer Association was established in 1912 while the United States Soccer Federation was set up in 1913.
Evidence of a form of soccer can be traced back to the third and second centuries BCE to a military exercise called Tsu’ Chu from the Han dynasty in China. The exercise consists of passing a leather ball through a small, one-foot-wide opening using only the feet, chest, back, or shoulders while other players tried to block the target. Other versions of this exercise have appeared through history. Although, they were slightly different, but the main idea was consistent: running through the other team defends while trying to make the target. As a result of this exercise, soccer was invented
Soccer has proven to be a notable sport throughout the years, starting with its unique history. Soccer began all over the world, tracing back thousands of years. The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Vikings, as well as other nationalities all played a form of the game soccer. In China and Rome, games that were similar to soccer were played around 200 B.C. Helmer and Owens, 5. People believe that soccer started more than a thousand years ago when villagers killed attacking pirates by cutting off their heads and kicking them around (Helmer and Owens, 5).
In ancient Rome soccer was played with no rules, strategies, or tactics. There were usually 54 players in total 27 players on each team. The game was so popular that it was included in the Olympics, many players were injured in that game. There was another game that was played and this game was played on the streets it was mostly played by young boys. There was another game that was played in the mid- 14th century it was called mob football. This game had unlimited players and nobody created rules for it. Around 576 B.C. to 221 B.C. a sport in China called cuju was popularly played cuju mean “kick ball with
James Naismith, creator of basketball, used a soccer ball as the first basketball. The game of soccer was originally played with an inflated animal bladder that was surrounded with leather (Leibs 67). Just as in every sport, as time evolves, so do the materials being played with. The materials begin becoming more durable, controllable, and affordable. During the Renaissance period, many sports were evolved and took a turn for the better. Although many sports were introduced during the Renaissance period; football, lawn bowling, and tennis were the three main sports that influenced today’s time period the most.
Finally, we have reached the age to play sports, but what sport would be the best? Many kids turn to baseball and football because these are America’s past time sport, but there is always a select few that choose soccer. Why, because their parents force them to play. Soccer, in a parents point of view, is seen as a safe exercise sport, you can make friends and most important, get outside. At such a young age, kids have never been the best at following directions, which leads to chaos on the field. Kids swarm around the ball wishing for the chance to kick the ball a couple of times. In all truth, “Kids don't grow up wanting to watch tag on TV, or be a professional tag player, and that's really how most kids who play it view soccer. It's fun, its outdoors and it involves running around, but that's about it” (Emen). Besides the fact of parents forcing soccer down the kids throat, they get the image that soccer will forever be a disorganized sport, which in all truth can be at some points. The main reason for this is because in America, we were never taught how to play s...