Why Do The English Claim They Invented Football, When It Was In Actual Fact, The Chinese?

History states that the chinese found the idea of kicking a round shape into the back of a net. Although, of course the game wasn't refined with all the offside rules and stuff, but they invented the concept of the game

2006-07-15 15:09:00 Roy-Taggart says: i think you have answered your own question.football as we know it would not be football without the offside rule. without offside, the game would be alternating goalmouth scrambles with no midfield paly.in the nineteenth century the english used various types of offside rules to get round this. the first recorded version of football with an offside rule similar in principle to today's offside rule was in cambridge in england in the 1840's.when the football association was founded in the 1860's to produce a unified set of rules for the game, they adopted (eventually) the cambridge offside rule.as britain was the major colonial power at the time and had a large merchant navy, "association football" (soccer) quickly spread accross the world unlike, say, gaelic football, american football and australian rules football which have not really taken off globally.

2006-07-16 11:15:03 Mira-Todd says: Chinese already now about press before gutemberg. heheheehe Adding in your question: In Amazonia, Indians already play football using their heads and a ball made by latex. We belong to a wolrd made by sofism. They knew compassand had better ships. England can do it, beacause it were center of Imerialist world, when everything started to be ranked. Some pre-coilombians already have some related ball play games. Arabians had better medicin and some talk about Bagda battery (eletricity before Volta). Greeks already know about Earth being sphere.

2006-07-15 09:16:17 Monique-Quinn says: You sure about that? I thought it was the Aztecs who liked kicking heads around...

2006-07-19 10:25:06 Jacinto-Sherlock says:

• we cannot claim that that game is the origin of football, and so it is perfectly feasible to say the chinese game cuju isn't either.
• football originated from age old games of mob football in england, and it was refined over the years.
• but before america was discovered by europeans.
• that is rubbish, while it may be true that a similar game was played, it wasn't the same, and england and china has almost no communication then.
• by that time football had already been invented.
• the games it originated from are far older, english, and have completely different roots to the game that was played in china.
• i think it was only a couple of hundred years ago they stopped using their hands and used only their feet.
• anyway, a game even older but very similar was played in south america.

2006-07-15 18:34:32 Romeo-Millhouse says: well, english have played the way modern football is played!chinese invented some kind of football, but it could also be seen as similar to volley and basket ball!there are historical evidences proving that the greeks, more than 2,500 years ago they were playing football!

2006-07-15 19:24:00 Floretta-Hallauer says: there are many cultures that had a very similar game to football like the aztecs, but the modern form was invented in England during the victorian age, including rules and everything else

2006-07-15 09:13:42 Harmony-Rogers says:

• Wrong..
• It was Scotland, look it up on the web..

2006-07-15 09:13:57 Wilda-Wise says: the english think they own everything... tats y... don't let that get to u...

• the english are claiming credit for a lot of things, and when one looks at the facts and details more closely, those claims often disappear into thin air football odds.
• so i would in general take any english claims with a pinch of salt.
• football-like games (or early versions of football) were played in a number of civilisations.
• the ancient celts in western europe invented and played a lot of team sports (to keep their warriors occupied in peacetime), and one of their games was kicking a skull (and later an air-filled pig's bladder) around with two teams trying to put it into a certain field or area.
• once a year whole villages played such games, and in some parts of the english west country this tradition has survived and is still practised today.
• there were similar kinds of games played by the incas, mayas and aztecs, and by the mongols as well football odds.
• i had not heard about china before, but it does not surprise me, since the chinese had a far superior civilisation with advanced culture at a time when the west was still a widely uncivilised area inhabited by wild and illiterate barbarians.
• modern football (or soccer, as some call it as well) developed from these ancient games.
• and its modern structure, with all the rules and regulations about the field, the teams, the ball and the matches was indeed developed and structured in 19th century england football odds.
• there was a parallel development in germany, but since there was no single german state at the time, the impact was much less effective.
• england, on the other hand, being the heartland of the british empire, spread their version of football around the globe, and this is until today the accepted version of the world's most popular sport.

2006-07-15 10:33:45 Betsey-Cattley says: because the actual shape the chinese were kicking around was a square, and we perfected it, thinking that a ball-shape would be much better. plus, our fa was the first in the world, therefore we refined it.too bad we can't play it!

2006-07-15 09:31:21 Lucille-Littlefield says: the chinese kicked something?well if I kick a rock it doesn't mean i've invented a sport.just like if I throw rocks or sticks, it doesn't mean I just invented javelin, and discus.

2006-07-15 10:03:29 Adrian-Weidemann says: the english was the first to actually kick the ball after loosing the first game to your mother's dog

2006-07-16 17:25:49 Efrain-Zeal says: a lot of nations kicked things around even Eskimos but the official rules and the modern soccer we know today was invented by GBritain in around 1900

2006-07-18 16:36:18 Pablo-Keilbach says: dumbass! chinese didnt invent it. All over the world there is evidence of most civilisations playing some kind of game involving kicking an object.The British (not just the English) were the 1st ones to formalise the game and give it a set area and set rules. you see different schools and Universities had different rules so a group of Univeristy students (These Gentleman were from all corners of the British Isles) got together and laid out the size of the pitch and the rules so they could all play each other. Some chose to also handle the ball so Rugby was also born. In this way they laid down the rules to most of the worlds sports.The popular appeal of these games grew and spread with the British Empire.

2006-07-15 09:16:41 Thi-Kight says:

• Chinese?
• I thought it was the Bulgarians.

2006-07-15 09:14:09 Rey-Berry says: probably because the game spread out to europe and then the rest of the world from england and not from china.