Which genius invented soccer?

Answer 1

The Chinese played it thousands of years ago, but it really started in England, when a swimming club (believe it or not) was bored of just swimming up and down a swimming pool, they got a ball, went to the field and played football, they liked it and the club turned into a football club.

Answer 2

The Dartmouth Game
From the early 1800s to around 1890, students at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire played an indigenous soccer-like game called Old Division Football. The game was first played before modern soccer and rugby were invented in England, and it continued to rely on its own local rules for some time after students learned of the newer imports. Dartmouth students published the rules of what is now called Old Division Football in 1871.

The game involved unlimited sides made up variously of the members of the all-school United Fraternity versus the Social Friends ("Fraters v. Socials"); the even-numbered class years versus the odd-numbered years ("Old Division" or "Whole Division") and sometimes "New Hampshire v. the World." Every year a special match sometimes called the Usual Game of Foot Ball occurred early in the fall in which the sophomores took on the freshmen. The game was more about hazing and bragging rights, and by the late nineteenth century involved little more than a mob fight over possession of the round ball. The event became known as the Usual Football Rush and then simply the Football Rush, lasting until 1948.


[edit] Rules (1871)
Rule 1. Five umpires, one from each class in the Academical, and one from the Scientific Department, shall be elected annually by the college. The senior umpire present shall settle all disputes which arise concerning the game.

Rule 2. The ball shall be warned from the second base of the college grounds and towards the buildings. No warn shall be valid until both parties are ready.

Rule 3. Until the ball is kicked the warning party shall stand behind the ball and their opponents in front; the latter at a distance of at least two rods. These positions, and the warn as well, shall be changed each game.

Rule 4. No player shall kick, trip, strike, or hold another for any cause during the game.

Rule 5. It shall be considered foul when the ball is caught on the bound, or fly, or picked from the ground; when it passes the fence at the north or south end of the common, or at either corner, or when knocked past the east or west fence.

Rule 6. In case of a foul the ball shall be tossed up by the umpire at the place where the foul occurs, unless it be within two rods of either fence, in which case the ball shall be brought directly in a distance of two rods before umpiring.

Rule 7. The game shall be won when the ball is kicked past the east or west fence.


[edit] Sources
Football Rules, “Editorial Department,” The Dartmouth 5, No. 9 (October 1871), 364-365.

Football Rules, “Editorial Department,” The Dartmouth 8, No. 7 (September 1874), 264, reprinted in Aegis 1926 (1926), 486.)

"Old Division Football, the Indigenous Mob Soccer of Dartmouth College"

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_division_football"

Answer 3

A parent game of socer was invented by the Aztecs, thier empire was located in Central and South America.Even the Chinese and Japanese did have a game similar to soccer, so did Romans, but the soccer today's is more likelly to have its roots in Central America, which was learnt by Spanish when they conquered parts of Aztec Empire and must have subsequently reached Europe.

Answer 4

Nobody knows for sure, but variations of it have been played for 3000 years. Here are some interesting facts about the origins of soccer:
http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/What_is_the_history_of_soccer

Also, you might want to check out the winning answer from the last time this question was asked:
http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061108165520AA67bsR

Answer 5

the ancient chinese invented it..i once saw a documentary about it on the ngc..they also mentioned the aztecs but it was known the chinese came up with the game first..

Answer 6

mexicans have been playing soccer since the aztecs.....we played a very similar game called "balompie" and it is often reffered to as "el balompie azteca" because the aztecs started the game

Answer 7

Someone who loves low scoring games where the players are acting hurt so they can get the other players called for a foul.

Answer 8

Don't know but I'd like to get into playing some day soon, could be fun.

Answer 9

my great great grandfather el Pirata Fuentes