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Ancient Roots of Football (soccer)

                                                        Football (and soccer because it is known in those other parts of the world) has a long and illustrious history. Football as we know it now began in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Alternative variants of the game, on the other hand, existed much earlier and are documented in football history.

Football's origins and forerunners in the history

                                                                              Over 3,000 years ago, the first known examples of a team game employing a rock-made ball was found in ancient Mesoamerican communities. Although several variants of the game were disseminated across broad territories, it was created by the Aztecs and was known as Tchatali. The ball would represent the sun in some rituals, and the captain of the losing side would be the sun.

Cuju, the first recorded ball game that included kicking, was played in China in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC. Cuju was played on a square with a round ball (stitched leather with fur or feathers inside). Later, a modified version of this game migrated to Japan, where it was known as kemari and was played in ceremonial forms.

Probably another even older cuju was Marn Gook, a ball game mostly requiring kicking that was played by Aboriginal Australians and described by European emigrants in the 1800s. Encased leaves or roots formed the ball. The rules are mostly unclear, but keeping the ball in the air was undoubtedly a key feature, as it was in many other early forms of the game.

Other types of ball games date back to Ancient Greece. Shreds of leather were used to make the ball, which was filled with hair (the first documents of balls filled with air are from the 7th century). Ball games, on the other hand, were considered low-status and were not included in the Panhellenic Games. Games with balls were not part of the entertainment in the great stadiums in Ancient Rome (amphitheaters), Football was brought to The British Isles by the Roman culture (Britannica). However, it is unclear to what extent the British people were inspired by this type and to what extent they produced their own variations.