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The creation of soccer can't be pinpointed due to it being in some of Shakespeare's plays and no accurate time of creation but we know it has been around for hundreds of years. -
In Italy, they played a game called "calcio" with teams of 27+ people. The game involved kicking, carrying, or passing a ball across a goal line. In 1580, Giovanni Bardi published a set of rules for the game of Calcio. -
In North America, native American Indians in the original Jamestown settlement played a game called pasuckuakohowog, meaning "they gather to play ball with the foot." It was a rough game, played on the beach, the field a half-mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, with as many as 1000 players at a time. -
The rules were further standardized and a new version was adopted by all the schools, colleges and universities, known as the Cambridge Rules. -
In the USA, football was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown. -
Soccer joined the Olympics as one of the main sports of competition. The very first Olympic soccer game was held in Athens. Soccer was just now becoming a relevant sport in the era. -
FIFA held the first World Cup Game Montevideo, Uruguay, with 13 teams. -
Soccer was taken off the program for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, due to a controversy between FIFA and the IOC over the definition of amateur and the reluctance of many strong soccer countries to travel to the US because of the expense involved. -
The Ballon d'Or award is an annual football award for the best player over the previous year. It is given to the top player over the season for who was the best player. -
Pele retired from the pro soccer scene october 1st 1977. he will always be one of the greatest players and will never be forgotten. -
He invented the cruyff turn and it is a move that is still used to this day. The move is done by quickly using the outside of your foot to receive the ball and push it out words. -
The American women's team won the first-ever women's soccer event at the Olympics. -
Messi made history as becoming one of the youngest people to ever be signed to a pro team. He signed this 2000 but his contract didn't start until 2001. -
He join 3 short years after messi and quickly rose to fame due to his ball handling ability. Some people will call him the GOAT of footwork. -
argentina won the world cup with major help from Messi who got the ballon d'or over Haaland who score 57 goals in 1 season