Soccer: The Evolution Saga
Games involving the art of kicking and channelizing of a ball towards a given area have been played in several nations since ages. According to FIFA, the very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise of precisely this skillful technique dating back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC in China. It was also called the game of Cuju. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from around 50 B.C. that talks about the games very similar to soccer. Those games were played between the team of Japan and the team of China.
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