SOCCER HISTORY
B.C.'s Rome , Greece, Japan & China, references to games which were remote ancestors of soccer were found.
100-500's A.D. England, one story speaks of using the enemies skull as a ball. Another tells of a brave village defeating a Roman team and running them out of town in 217 AD.
200 Italy , the Italians played a game called "harpastum" which they introduced to the British.
217 England , the British said that they already played a similar game. British soldiers said that they started playing soccer by kicking the skulls of defeated Roman Soldiers from a liberated village. Then, Britain seemed to play this so-called football soccer game more than other countries.
600-1600 The creation of the rubber ball was in Mexico & Central America. These people played soccer on a recessed court shaped like a capital "I". The court was 40-50 feet long with vertical walls several feet high.
Middle Ages Italy , British Isles & France, records of soccer where found.
1100's England , by the 12th Century, soccer had become a violent mob sport with no rules and any sort of behavior condoned.
1314 England , King Edward II orders citizens to stop playing soccer.
1369 England , edict of King Edward III forbids the game of soccer because it interfered with archery.
1500's Italy , the Italians played a game called calcio with teams of 27+ people. The game was simple: kicking, carrying or passing a ball across a goal line.
1561 Richard Mulcaster, an English schoolmaster, mentions the game in a treatise on the education of the young, influenced by the soccer game of calcio in Florence.
1572 England , Queen Elizabeth I seriously bans soccer.
1580 Italy , Giovanni Bardi publishes a set of rules of the soccer game of "calcio".
1605 England , football soccer became legal again and by the end of the 17th century it was the country's most popular sport.
1609 USA , in the original Jamestown settlement native American Indians played a soccer game called pasuckuakohowog, meaning "they gather to play ball with the foot." Beaches, a half mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, served as playing fields for as many as 1000 people at a time.
1600's Pacific Islands , inhabitants were early to develop games using hands and feet. They used coconuts, oranges and pig bladders as balls.
1600's Alaska & Canada, the native Eskimos played aqsaqtuk or soccer on ice. There is no know date of origin.
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