Famous soccer players That Are Also Amongst The Richest Sportspersons In The World Today

Soccer originated in England which also has the oldest football club in the world called Sheffield FC, and even today soccer is the sport most watched by fans all across the world and is also known as football except of course in America.
Strode Like Colossal Figures Over The Football Stage
There have also been many famous soccer rivalries including those in England, Scotland and in Spain and there have been famous soccer players such as Pele, Maradonna, Bobby Charlton, Eusebio, Johann Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Ronaldo, Beckham and many more that have strode the football stage as real colossal figures revered and adored throughout the world for their excellent prowess in soccer.
There are some soccer players that though they do not fall in the category of famous soccer players are still nevertheless in the record books such as Stephan Stanis from France who scored sixteen goals in a single game in December 1942 for his club Racing Club de Lens. Also, the fastest goal scored goes to Ricardo Olivera who scored within 3 seconds of the game starting in 1998.
Famous soccer players such as Maradonna debuted in world soccer at the tender age of sixteen for his home team Argentina and another famous soccer player was Eusebio who had the honor of scoring forty-six goals for Benfica in the European Cup.
However, no one would argue that the Brazilians have produced the most famous soccer players thanks to the flair and imagination with which they play the game. From legends such as Pele to the current superstars such as Ronaldo, Ronaldinho there little doubts the talents of these famous soccer players. Of course, pride of place amongst these galaxies of famous soccer players goes to the undisputed king of soccer Pele, who has scored more than one thousand two hundred goals, and even years after his retirement, one can still not help but admire his sublime skills when one watches his matches on video.
Famous soccer players such as Ronaldo who came from a poor background have reaped many financial benefits and are probably amongst the richest as far as sporting personalities are concerned. Another great, Diego Maradonna has excited fans whenever he touches the football, though he later had many drug related problems and is currently retired.
As recently as the last World Cup in 2006 in Germany, one witnessed the famous head butting incident involving French World Cupper Zinedine Zidane who is another of the many famous soccer players, who however suffered the ignominy of being red carded during the finals in 2006.
The English too have a very famous soccer player in David Beckham, who is a very influential midfielder renowned for his pinpoint passes and excellent free kicks. The list of famous soccer players goes on and on, and if one were to list them all it would indeed make up a very lengthy list.

If only we knew for certain who invented Soccer.

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.