in this slideshow we have gone through the history of soccer and how its started with the ancients civilizations.

2. If you ever wondered when and why
soccer was invented, you must first
understand that humans, from the start of
times, has the urge to kick things. For
example, have you ever counted how
many time you was kicking a plastic bottle
or a cone just out of frustration or
boredom? Exactly, the instinct of soccer
was in our human nature from the start of
times.

3. The common information says that soccer was
born in England in 1863. The truth is, soccer was
officially organized and played with set rules at
that date, but it was actually invented and
played long time before that.

4. The first known civilisation, that played soccer
the closest to its current form , was the Chinese
300 years B.C, they used to call it “Cuju“, which
involve players kicking a leather ball through a
hole made from silk fabric and stretched to
two pole.

5. Almost in he same period of time as the
Chinese, the Aztec used to kick a leather ball
through a hole inside two carved stone, each
at one end of the field. Aztec soccer has a
religious significance, the game itself
represented the battle between day and night
and the ball represented the head of the
sacrificed victim. It is said that the court of
soccer was at the bottom of a blood stained
stairs of a pyramid, it is believed that the coach
of the loosing team, or even the whole team,
was sacrificed as a result.

6. Soccer was also known during the Medieval
Ages, it was a pretty famous practice in
England, it was also considered an extremely
violent game even for that time standards. A
clear example of this is at the London British
Museum, where a wooden engraving was
showing two man fighting over a leather ball,
you can also find another scene from the same
era including a player with his arm broken.

7. Last but not least, soccer was officially
introduced to the world on the 6th of October
in 1863, were couples of English clubs met and
agreed to create the first set of rules to define
the game. Couple of years later, “The Football
Association” was born and the footballs rules
became a universal standard making soccer
as we know it today.