Kicking a ball around with no or very different rules is not the same as soccer. It may have had roots from ancient games, but it wasn't until 1863 when schools who played by different rules voted on a standised set of rules was association football born. At the same committee voting on the final rules of soccer were the people that 8 years latter would break away and created the Rugby football Union in the essence of what they had been playing previously..Sup wrote:
actually 4.5k years ago. You must be relating to modern football (soccer for infidels)DrunkFace wrote:
And soccers only 140 or so years old...CC-Marley wrote:
Just wait. US will in time kick the asses of the world. We are only a couple hundred years old.
"Numerous attempts have been made to ban football games, particularly the most rowdy and disruptive forms. This was especially the case in England and in other parts of Europe, during the Middle Ages and early modern period. Between 1324 and 1667, football was banned in England alone by more than 30 royal and local laws."...
And yet the proves nothing, except differing forms of football have existed in history(which I don't dispute), some may have resembled soccer, others rugby, other Gaelic, and still more that were nothing more then a fight with a ball involved.
"Football is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve (to varying degrees) kicking a ball with the foot".
"Football is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve (to varying degrees) kicking a ball with the foot".
The argument started when you implied that football was played before soccer which is of course wrong