Invention

=﻿The Invention Of Soccer=

The clear ancestor of soccer was the Chinese game of //t'su chu,// played by the third century B.C. The ball was made of leather, at first stuffed, then in later times inflated so that it carried farther. The feet and body, but not the hands, were used to propel the ball. In an aristogratic version played in front of the emperor's palace, the opposing teams tried to kick the ball through a tiny hole in a silken net. Even the emperor would occasionally take part. Women also played in a version of the game with eight players called Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea. This Chinese "sport of kings" was, oddly enough, the sport of peasants in England during the fourteenth century A.D.—mobs number hundreds played; broken limbs were common and deaths not unknown. The American Indian equivalent to English soccer was lacrosse (or //bagataway// in Irroquois), which was played in the eastern half of North America. It was described by European observers in the seventeenth century as an ancient sport. Up to five hundred warriors on each side, often from neighboring villages, took part in this roving battle, with one team painted dark and the other light. The idea was to gather the deerskin ball in a hollowed-out stick (in later times a curved racket with sinew or hemp strings) and run with it toward the goal. Scoring was made even more difficult by the fact that the goalposts were formed by medicine men, who wandered across the field of play as the spirits directed them.

Around the 1100's or so that resemble a violent game of soccer. They played the rudimentary game of soccer without many rules and the game of medieval soccer may have been more of a brawl than actual match. By the 1800's, a few rules did come into play and the game of soccer was taking shape, but still much was not yet decided. They experimented with soccer balls and different materials were used to create a "rounder ball". The first recorded match took place in the 1100s and had very few rules making it a very violent game. As far as the 1800's rules were still not fully implemented and things like goals and use of hands may still have not been defined. In 1863, there was a breakthrough in the sport and its rules, on 26th October 1863, the football association (FA) was created. England has records of games similar to soccer being played, but records of games from many years back may not be the easiest to find. It's hard to even speculate on how the game came about or who invented the game of soccer. Kicking a round object that rolls is natural to us and I would bet many kids before recorded times kicked coconuts around fro sport. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LIuY-m8Tes