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Well history disagrees with you a bit. The idea of football as a team sport was invented in Mesoamerica. It’s unclear exactly where in Mesoamerica the game was invented, but it was popular across Mesoamerican cultures like the Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, and Maya beginning about 3,000 years ago. The games were played with 16 pound rubber balls which were found at several archeological dig sites.
Football began to evolve in modern Europe from the medieval period onwards. Somewhere around the 9th century, entire towns in England would kick a pig’s bladder from one landmark to another.
England is the first country to codify and identify soccer as the sport that is recognized today.
In fact, the English introduced uniform rules, the penalty kicks in 1891 and other regulations such as touching the ball with hands and forbidding the tripping of opponents |
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