The Greeks were playing football 2,000 years ago

... The History of the Game of Football One of the first examples of the game, played in a similar fashion to football was in ancient china. It has been discovered a game called Tsu chu was played in 200 BC where two 30 ft bamboo poles acted as goals. This game was a simplified game of kick ball. The Greeks, for whom ball games were an essential part of life, played a form of football as early as 4 BC. The game was known as pheninda and involved kicking the ball, running with it and handling it. The Romans followed the Greeks and called their version of the game hapastum, this was played on a rectangular field, between two teams who each defend a line at the end of their pitch. The object of the game was to throw the ball from player to player, in a forward motion eventually looking to

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