How Far Back Does Soccer Go?
Saturday July 5, 2008
A news story by the BBC advertising an arts tv show in Wales is claiming that soccer, or at least the game soccer evolved from, is mentioned in documents dating back over a millennium. The story gives few details, but states “Ms Roberts said references to early forms of the game were made between 942 and 950AD in the Book of Taliesin, where soldiers kicked the heads of defeated soldiers” which doesn’t sound convincingly like soccer to me, but I haven’t seen the programme and the rest of the argument. The article goes on to say that the word “football”, used by the rest of the world to name soccer, originated in 1575.
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I really do not understand you, english people…Now you are calling Football “Soccer”, just because back in the States that is the name they use… TERRIBLE, don’t you think so!!!
Right on, Juergen! REAL Canadian football aficionados don’t like to call it soccer…sometimes just to bother Americans! Most leagues in N. America use the word soccer…people get so confused. Maybe when the game gets more popular here, we can come up with another name for Canadian and American “football”–you know, that game where they HARDLY EVER TOUCH THE BALL WITH THEIR FEET! (By the way, CFL rules are different from NFL, but that doesn’t stop most players in the CFL from being American.)