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A Brief History of 'football.'
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A Brief History of 'football.' So many ancient cultures played a sport similar to modern football that no one can say with any certainty when or where football began. But it is known that the earlier varieties of what later became football were played almost 3000 years ago. One of the earliest forms of football in which players kicked a ball on a small field has been traced as far back as 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to football that were played between teams from china and Japan. The Chinese kicked a leather ball (filled) with hari) and it is known for sure that a football game was played in 611 AD, in the ancient Japanese capital Kyoto. The ancient Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern football. The early Olympic Games...
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