Where, how and when did soccer start?

Where, how and when did Soccer start?

 

Soccer is one of the biggest sports in the world. It is played all over the world. China played a ball-kicking game in the 2^nd and 3^rd centuries BC. A leather ball and net were used. The Chinese game was called cuju. Ball games were also very popular in ancient Greece and Rome. Soccer was not yet discovered yet but they played ball kicking games.

The actual growth of the sport soccer began in England. When the sport started to be played in England, there wasn’t many restrictions in the rules so there was a lot of violence. As the violence in the sport was so fierce, soccer was banned by King Edward III in 1365. The century after, the Scottish king is believed to have said, ‘No man shall play football’.

A game was played in the earlier times in France called ‘la choule’. This was also banned in the country because of the violent behaviour of the players.

There is not actual proof on where, how and when soccer began but there are many various sources suggesting where one of the largest sports in the world started off. England is the country that changed the basics of the ball kicking game into the sport of soccer (football).