History of Soccer

         Even when compared to the Olympics, soccer is the biggest festive sporting event of the world. In many countries, soccer plays an important part in day to life, and even has the power to influence politics. This is particularly true when it comes to Latin America. In 1969, riots following a match between El Salvador and Honduras led to a 5 day “Football War”, leaving many people dead and hundreds hospitalized.

         However, soccer is an ancient game, since it has been proven that nearly every culture on earth has kicked a ball at some point of time. Before today’s ball was introduced, a number of variations were in use, like human heads or stitched-up cloth.

         There is a display at the Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany where you can see a Chinese scroll from around 50 B.C., mentioning tsu chu, a physical exercise where you kick a ball that is stuffed with hair and feather, covered by leather. The Japanese too played a comparable game that they call kemari. The Greek version of soccer was episkyros, while the Roman one was Harpastum, which was a part of the early Olympics in Rome. In England, soccer has originated as a 'mob' game, played mostly in the villages.

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