Thursday, August 6, 2009

It is soccer or football or there first?

Of course, Manchester United fans will tell you that the modern version of football or soccer as it is known by many in England, but others in the world than the invention of the sport is part of their country.
According to the Chinese, they had a version of the game is as far back as 7000 years! Thei game was called Tsu Chu and the players would have a leather ball stuffed with fur into a hole. Similar to soccer today hands should not be used in the team was considered an honor.
The Japanese call their idea of football and Kemar told to come almost three thousand years. Their sport is very much like Tsu Chu of China's history and said it was a game between the two countries in 611A.D.
The records of the Byzantine Empire show that a version of football is played in the emergence of the Roman Empire, the real version of antiquity. Romans and Greeks had many games that were close to football and the game is the game of thinking Harpastum like a football evolved from May
Believe it or not the ancient Mayans in Pre-Columbia America also has a game similar to football. It is actually a combination of football and basketball with small stone hoops placed about ten to twelve meters and players have to bounce a ball of hard rubber of a substance through the hoop without use their hands. This version called Pok t 'Pok was also very violent and the use of weapons is permitted at a time. The losing team was beheaded, no worries of a losing streak.
Finally from Britain we football history, beginning with the beheading of a Danish prince. It is said that his head was used as a ball and he hated both past villagers around drawings depicting the event with a ball rather than his head and that is how it became a sport to give kicking the ball or an object net.
The beginning of the game was very violent but very popular throughout the country. King Edward III thought it was so violent that he wanted to prohibit ordinary people play, but that never materialized.

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