With the World Cup fever currently raging on, let’s decide if it is the best or worst time to debate on the origins of the world’s most popular sport. You may have heard the one about how soccer got started, whereby a group of victorious warriors beheaded an enemy general and kicked his head around in a post-battle celebration in eighth-century England.
Several countries have since claimed to be the birthplace of soccer as well, but none has the official recognition of the president of soccer’s international governing body. Until now. According to FIFA President Sepp Blatter, soccer originated in China and he has walk the talk by presenting the Qi State History Museum in Zibo City with an official document recognizing China as ‘the cradle of the earliest forms of football’.
According to the museum, there exist common characteristics between soccer and cuju, a game played in China during the country’s Spring and Autumn historical period from the eighth to fifth century B.C. After all, the players of Cuju had gathered often enough to kick a leather ball, stuffed with feathers, into a hole. Case closed.
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