History of Football
The history of football ( apuestas futbol ) can be dated even earlier than the Biblical era when humans have the urge to kick at stones and objects they find on their way. This urge lead to the development of the game even though there were no records kept at that time. However, the first documentation of a football match was done in the Second century BC in the era of the Han Dynasty of the Chinese military. Those military men were fond of kick a round leather through a hole that was created in a piece of silk clothes hung between some poles. The game was called “Tsu chu” and was being played to the delight of the Chinese emperor some 3,000 years ago.
The Chinese imperial court in Kyoto later accepted this game and some bits of modifications were made on it in the year 600AD. One of the major changes made by the Japanese to the game was that; players will form a circle and kick the ball to each other and trying to prevent the ball from touching the ground. The game was given a Japanese name “Kemari”.
There were other unclarrified records of the history of football within 388-311 BC in the Roman Empire, as well as some native Americans that settled in Australian in the year 1610 who loved to play football to the delight of native Australians.
