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Played on a court shaped like an "I". object was to project the rubber ball through the ring on each side.
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By the 12th Century, it had become a violent mob sport with no rules
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King Edward II ordered citizens to stop playing
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Italians played a game calcio of 27 or more people. The kicking, carrying, or passing the ball across the line.
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She seriously bans the sport
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Giovanni Bardi creates a set of rules for calcio.
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Alaska and Canada, the native Eskimos play soccer on ice where the balls are stuffed with grass, caribou hair, and moss.
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Soccer became legal again and was the country's most popular sport
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USA, in the original Jamestown settlement native American Indians played a game called pasuckuakohowog, meaning "they gather to play ball with the foot." Beaches, a half-mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, served as playing fields for as many as 1000 people at a time. Games were often rough, resulting in broken bones, but no one could be identified because players disguised themselves with ornaments and war paint making retaliation close to impossible. It was common for games to be carried over f
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Soccer wins royal patronage from King Charles II
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Soccer was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown.
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The first international match was played between England and Scotland.
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Penalties were introduced into the game
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FIFA was created to have authorities and interpret the rules of the game
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Soccer becomes a part of the olympics
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First World Cup
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Birth of european club competitions
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First live worldwide TV coverage of the World Cup.
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Action replay machines and videotape used at 1966 World Cup.
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Korea and Japan co-host the first World Cup outside Europe and the Americas.
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2500B.C. Earliest traces of a soccer like game played during the Emperors birhday
