what country invented soccer?

Answer 1

According to FIFA, the "very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise of precisely this skilful technique dating back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in China."

Answer 2

it was the Scottish not the English , they have the oldest Football clubs in the world , it is a misconception by the english ( and i am english) that we invented it , for instance my own hometown and the club i support Liverpool FC when they formed in 1892 they went to Scotland and came back with 11 Scots to play for them as they where superior in terms of their skill and tactics ( we won first ever game !).
The famous old english universities of Harrow ,Eton Oxford etc used to play an almost identical game but with slightly different rules than the scots (i think they used combination of hands and feet a bit like Gaelic Football).
A BBC programme on the history of football said it originally began on some remote Scottish island where one half of a town would play against the other half by kicking a ball from dead centre and the winner was the one who got it into the opposing side of town over a couple more hundred years the scots eventually made rules what they are today.
It is true that football was taught to the south americans by the english they even have teams their called Everton and Arsenal !, i think even the mighty AC Milans original founders where 3 englishmen.
hope this helps.

Answer 3

Association football or soccer was invented in England in the 19th century. It developed from ball games that were played at the various public schools. For hundreds of years before that ball games had been played all over England on certain days of the year, involving whole villages, teams of hundreds, and very few rules. Some are still played, such as the Atherstone ball game which has taken place every Shrove Tuesday for over 800 years.

Answer 4

Yeah, some historians say china invented a game consisting of kicking a ball but it was the english that started the first assocaition cup and many clubs was established(sheffield being the oldest club in the world) and the game quickly spread over the world, then foreigners come over to england to play the game and quickly spoilt it

Answer 5

England invented football - (that's why Football's coming home was contained in the lyrics to 3 Lions by Skinner and Baddiel).
It took off across Europe and was then imported by an ex-patriot to South America (Brazil), who subsequently became better than us.
The meaningless word soccer was created in America, as they already called their game football, even though the ball is thrown and the foot barely touches the ball in their version.

Answer 6

Mays and Aztecs played something very similar to the modern football. Also the chinese. Some articles from FIFA said that China was.
Anyways, I dont care so much who the inventors were, but thank to them we can enjoy the most popular sport nowadays. And my country has won 2 World cups till now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No......i'm not from the country you are thinking about
I'm Uruguayan, and very proud of it.

Answer 7

It's China, they invented soccer.If not for them there maybe no soccer in this world.

Answer 8

The English first set down a book of footballing rules. Thus the English. Means fack all if Scotland has the oldest clubs...you were playing with haggis as a football. It's who wrote the rules first...and it was the English.

Now...cavemen were kicking about their own shat out of sheer boredom...trying to kick it into their neighbours cave hole (net). So unless chinese are cavemen...no!

Answer 9

It was played for first time in China although as a sport was discovered in England

Answer 10

ENGLANDi think it was during the time of queen Victoria
along with cricket, rugby, probaly tenis and some other less major ones