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The earliest recorded form of soccer dates to China in the second and third centuries B.C., more than 2,200
years ago. According to the FIFA website, the game consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and
hair through a small opening made from bamboo canes. This ancient form of soccer was not a fun game for
regular people, but a military exercise for Chinese warriors.

Medieval England was the birthplace of modern soccer. In the late 1100s, when knights walked the land and
kings battled for the English throne, a man named William FitzStephen wrote the first existing account of a
game called "foot ball." Common people from entire villages would gather to kick a ball through the streets
and across the fields, pushing each other in the process. For FitzStephen, the game was undignified and brutal.

During the next 600 years, a number of English kings banned the game to protect the country's soldiers and
workers from injury. According to the Spartacus Educational website, Edward II outlawed the sport in the
1300s. Edward III, Henry IV, Henry V, Edward IV, Henry VII and Henry VIII also enforced the ban. The people of
England, however, continued to play despite the royal commands.

In the 1800s, soccer finally began to resemble the game we know today. The sport had become popular in
schools and universities across England, where the students began to put down some rules. In 1863,
representatives from some of England's soccer clubs gathered to create the official rules of soccer. By the end
of the meeting, the men had formed the Football Association, the same association that governs English
soccer today. They also created the "Laws of the Game," a set of 13 official rules. This meeting marked the
birth of modern soccer.
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Answer the following questions

When and where was football invented?
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What were the first balls made of?
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Was it a competitive sport in China? Justify.
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When did football appear in Europe?
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How did village people play the game?
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Who wrote the first account of the game and what was his opinion of it?
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Why did the kings of England ban the sport?
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Who invented the rules for football?
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