History Of Soccer Research Paper

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Today, soccer is a sport that is known and played worldwide. Soccer is the most popular sport in Europe and America. Soccer is also known as “football”. Two thousand years ago soccer started in China, it has originated from a sport called Tsu Chu, this was a sport where you kicked around a leather ball into a goal. There was a game similar to this game in Egypt during the age of Baquet.

In B.C. Greece started this game where two equal teams would throw the ball over the other teams heads and every time they would score the team that made the point would move up and the other team would back up until they were no longer in front of the white line.

The first soccer game was played in Britain but they didn’t kick a ball around, the teams kicked around a head of a prince they just killed in war. King Edward the third had to stop this game in Britain because it was too violent. In 1605 soccer became illegal in England.

The first soccer club started in 1862. Then in 1863 groups of people came together and formed rules for the game. The first national soccer game was in 1873. This game was played in Glasgow Scotland. Then they created a uniform for the sport and for each team.

In 1885 the first soccer match outside of England was played against Canada and America, Canada won. Then more people started …show more content…

We would practice hitting the ball into the goal that we had set up. I never actually played on a soccer team but i always wanted too. I thought being apart of a soccer team would be really fun but I was too scared to go on the field in front of all the other parents. The only sport that interests me the most is soccer. Soccer interests me the most because I love how the game is set up. My favorite position to play is goalie. I like goalie the best because I feel like i’m really good at blocking the ball from going into the

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