Football (soccer)

Throughout my next few blog posts I am going to talk to you about where some of the most popular sports in the world originate from.


One of the greatest ever footballers from brazil Ronaldinho.

Today I am going to talk to you about where football (soccer) originates from. Football is the most popular sport in the world today. It has over 250 million players playing in 200 countries worldwide. But where did this sport come from? First signs of the football came from China around the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. It was said that Chinese people played a sport which involved kicking a leather ball into a small net. This is the earliest sign of the sport of football. But it is well known to people that the modern game of football originated in England. Football started out as a very vile sport and it is even reported that the first ball was a head of a Danish solider. Football was also banned in the year 1365 by King James it got so out of hand. The big kick off of modern football happened in and around 1815. Some big university's around England started promoting football and this is what really kicked the game of football off. Football then gradually spread across the world and it made it the sport it is today.
        
         So even though the Chinese might claim the English were the people who made what is now the biggest sport in the world.