Soccer is a game of almost constant play where each team is trying to kick a round ball into a goal,guarded by a goalie who is the only player on his team allowed to use his/her hands.

A little history on Soccer

One of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 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 soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto.

While historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.

My Artrage soccer ball.


The game of soccer hasn't change much over centuries, and it still remains an INCREDIBLY popular sport throughout the world. In fact, the Soccer(Football almost everywhere outside of America) World Cup is this year, sometime between June 11 and July.