Any discussion about who invented soccer will naturally veer around to England where the game was first organized and which has evolved over the centuries and the modern version of soccer is certainly the offshoot of the game invented in England. According to legend, the first ball used in soccer was that of a head of a Danish brigand. By the time the fourteenth century arrived, the popularity of soccer had reached great heights even though the monarch of that time King Edward the Third banned it from being played.
Japan And China Have Early Reports Of The Game Having Been Played Even Before Christ
However, there are also other claimants as to who invented soccer, with it having also having been known to have been played in Japan around the year 1000 B.C. and, according to the Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany, there have also been found some Chinese text from the year 50 B.C. that also have mention of games similar to soccer having been played in that country. What is sure; however is that there was soccer played in the year 611 AD in the capital of Japan of that time in a place named Kyoto?
So, there is considerable confusion about who invented soccer since even the Romans had played a soccer style game that involved twenty-seven men per side and the game was so rough and ready that at the end of the fifty minute game most of the players had to be sent to a hospital.
The problem with identifying exactly who invented soccer is that there are no certain records about the game and its origins, and thus there is no clear explanation of how the game moved from Asia to Europe.
What is clear is that soccer was played in England even in spite of the ban by King Edward the Third, and by the turn of the nineteenth century, there were even annual contests being played in north as well as central England, and perhaps the earliest recorded instance of such matches refers to the year 1829 when a match was played in Derbyshire in which there were many “broken skins, broken heads, torn coats and lost hats.”
And, though this does not provide us with any clearer picture of who invented soccer, there were even records that the game had been played at Eton college where early forms of rules were implemented in the year 1815, which suggest that some form of order came to be known in place of the chaos up until that time.
So, even though one cannot say for certain who invented soccer, what is certain is that the English played the game in spite of the bans imposed, and they later came to even export the game to almost all parts of the world, which today is without a doubt the most viewed game on the planet, and is a bigger sport than any other sport is it baseball, basketball and American football all combined as one.
Japan And China Have Early Reports Of The Game Having Been Played Even Before Christ
However, there are also other claimants as to who invented soccer, with it having also having been known to have been played in Japan around the year 1000 B.C. and, according to the Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany, there have also been found some Chinese text from the year 50 B.C. that also have mention of games similar to soccer having been played in that country. What is sure; however is that there was soccer played in the year 611 AD in the capital of Japan of that time in a place named Kyoto?
So, there is considerable confusion about who invented soccer since even the Romans had played a soccer style game that involved twenty-seven men per side and the game was so rough and ready that at the end of the fifty minute game most of the players had to be sent to a hospital.
The problem with identifying exactly who invented soccer is that there are no certain records about the game and its origins, and thus there is no clear explanation of how the game moved from Asia to Europe.
What is clear is that soccer was played in England even in spite of the ban by King Edward the Third, and by the turn of the nineteenth century, there were even annual contests being played in north as well as central England, and perhaps the earliest recorded instance of such matches refers to the year 1829 when a match was played in Derbyshire in which there were many “broken skins, broken heads, torn coats and lost hats.”
And, though this does not provide us with any clearer picture of who invented soccer, there were even records that the game had been played at Eton college where early forms of rules were implemented in the year 1815, which suggest that some form of order came to be known in place of the chaos up until that time.
So, even though one cannot say for certain who invented soccer, what is certain is that the English played the game in spite of the bans imposed, and they later came to even export the game to almost all parts of the world, which today is without a doubt the most viewed game on the planet, and is a bigger sport than any other sport is it baseball, basketball and American football all combined as one.
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