Soccer/Football

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  The Origin of soccer is something no one really knows about, although it has been played for over 3,000 years in England, South America, and Europe, people still have different views on where exactly was the origin was. Some people think the Greeks or Romans came up with the game, while others think the Chinese because the Chinese have the earliest record of people shooting a ball into a goal, so that might have been where soccer originated. But the most information about soccer comes from England, so lots of people believe that's where it originated from.

  The Game that was played in England wasn't the same game that we watch now a days. Since it didn't have any rules you could hold the ball and even punch other players, this caused lots of fights to occur during the games. An interesting fact about the game being played then was that the ball they used was just a pig's bladder because leather was too expensive for a lowly and extremely rowdy game. The games started getting too rowdy and violent that King Edward III banned anyone from playing them, while Queen Elizabeth I even jailed a person for one week if caught playing the game. But no matter what the kings or queens did the people kept playing the game, because by now it had already become a famous game. Although the games became legal in 1681 when the British Parliament gave it a sanction, the games still didn't have rules causing lots of injuries and fights.

  The Rules of soccer was made by a famous collage known as Eton Collage, they made this rules in order to use when they fought against other collages, this set of rules were call the Cambridge Rules. This rules are what the games use now a days. There was only one rule that some people, at that time, thought wasn't right, that rule was: a player couldn't hold the ball. To settle this dispute eleven school met at a place called the Freemason's Tavern, where they discussed the rules that they would use when they played against each other. By the end of the meeting they had created two groups, Rugby Football and the Football Association, the difference between this two groups was that in Rugby Football you could hold the ball,  while in the Football Association you couldn't.

  The Name football is the original name for this kind of game because the main part a player uses to move the ball is with his feet.The term 'soccer' was first used in the 18th century by Charles Wreford Brown, a student from Oxford University. The students from Oxford were known for shortening words and adding 'er'. Instead of 'rugby' they'd call it 'rugger', while instead of calling it 'association' the called it 'soccer'.