American Soccer History

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One of the most popular sports worldwide is the phenomenon soccer. Very popular in the Americas and Europe soccer is a sport played with two teams and both attempt to score by kicking the ball into a goal. There are many positions like striker and goalie and they all have very different jobs that add up to the ultimate goal, winning. Soccer has many levels college, MLS, and the international stage where all players want to make it.
2nd century China is where soccer is believed to have began. The Han dynasty was a major changing point in the history of the Chinese culture and the sports aspect was no different. To play soccer the kids used leather balls and would use small nets as the goal. Japan and Greek culture also showed remnants of playing
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As some schools were fine with having rugby rules, tripping and shin kicking allowed, the Cambridge Rules denied these options and the schools that were not ok with it abided by these rules. 1863 another major change in soccer’s timeline eleven representatives from soccer clubs in London met at a tavern to set up a book of rules and guidelines for the sport. When the foundation of soccer was established in 1863 the football association banned any kind of handling of the ball. The rapid growth and popularity of the sport continued to spread throughout the world due to sailors and traders of Britain spread it to major parts of the world. Adoption of the sport in South America was due to countries like Argentina and Uruguay seeing the fun of the game. 1904 was the year that Federation Internationale de Football Association or FIFA. It took delegates from Denmark, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Switzerland to make this happen. By the early 1930’s many different levels and leagues were created as …show more content…
The World Cup is an event held by FIFA where international teams play each other in order to win the World Cup trophy. Teams from all over the world compete. Places like Argentina in South America or all the way over to France in Europe and they all are well known players. Some of the most famous players being Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi who are two of the top three highest players in the world, Ronaldo being first, Lebron second, Messi third. Soccer players are some of the highest paid athletes in the world making amounts up to 280 millions dollars a year which compared to basketball isn’t even imaginable. Some people don’t like racism especially in the soccer world and they feel that in some ways it is racist. The owner of FIFA said, “ There is no racism, at the end of the game we shake hands, this can happen because we have worked so hard against racism and