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Soccer is defined as sport that uses feet in order to play the game. Some people say that this form of game has been played ever since in China. People claim that Chinese people utilized the heads of their enemies as a ball. But this is still an unclear assumption. Chinese historians say that soccer started in China during the period of 2600 B.C. The game was played as a form of celebration of the birthday of China's emperor during the Hun Dynasty.
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Mexico & Central America, the creation of the rubber ball was in Mexico & Central America. These people played games on a recessed court shaped like a capital "I". The court was 40-50 feet long with vertical walls several feet high. In the middle of each wall, was a mounted stone or wooden ring and the object was to project the hard rubber ball through the ring.
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England, by the 12th Century, the game had become a violent mob sport with no rules and any sort of behavior was condoned
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England, King Edward II orders citizens to stop playing football.
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Italy, Giovanni Bardi publishes a set of rules of the game of "calcio".
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Alaska & Canada, the native Eskimos played aqsaqtuk or soccer on ice. Balls were stuffed with grass, caribou hair, and moss. One legend tells of 2 villages playing against each other with goals 10 miles apart.
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England, football became legal again and by the end of the 17th century it was the country's most popular sport.
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England, football wins royal patronage from King Charles ll.
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USA, Football was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown.
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England, the modern form of soccer originated. The sport grew among working-class communities and was seen as a way of keeping young and energetic kids out of trouble at home and in the school; they could let off steam and learn the values of teamwork.
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England, the first Cambridge Rules are drawn up.
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USA, Oneida Football Club; formed in Boston in 1862, was the first soccer club anywhere outside of England.
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England, The Football Association is founded
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First international football match played between England and Scotland.
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The four British associations agree on a uniform code and form the International Football Association Board.
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USA, USA versus Canada, first international match played between teams outside of Great Britain.
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The introduction of professionalism.
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The Football Association starts training match officials. First meeting of the International Football Association Board.
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The league system is inaugurated - professional footballers are allowed. Referees are given extensive powers of control
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Introduction of the penalty kick.
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The Football Association sends its first representative team abroad. A German team visits England
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Delegates from France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland established FIFA at a meeting in Paris on the 21st of May. The International Board, the authority over the rules and their interpretation continued under the jurisdiction of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, even though they were not affiliated with FIFA
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The Olympic Games of 1904 in St. Louis included soccer as an official Olympic sport where club teams competed under the national team banner. FIFA did not become active in Olympic soccer until 1908.
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Football becomes an Olympic event
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First World Cup with 13 teams in Uruguay
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At the 10th Olympiad in Los Angeles, soccer was eliminated due to a controversy between FIFA and the IOC over the definition of amateur and the reluctance of most of the strong soccer countries to travel to California because of the expense involved
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First live worldwide TV coverage of the World Cup.
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Pelé retired from international competition after Brazil tied Yugoslavia 2-2 before 150,000 people at the Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium
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First FIFA World Championship for Women's Football in China won by the USA
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Korea and Japan co-host the first World Cup outside Europe and the Americas
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Germany sponsored the 2006 world cup And italy took the title home .Zidane a great french player was kicked out of the match due to a unessesary head butt to an italian player .
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South Africa sponsored the world cup the year of 2010 a succesful and the best one yet in my opinion Spain took the cup home as the defeated the netherlands 1-0
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Messi is rated the best player 3rd time in a row .
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Korea and japan hosted the 2002 world cup and Brazil took the title home for the 5th time.
