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May 11, 1424
soccer ruined
King James I of Scotland passes a law banning the game. -
Jan 1, 1448
early soccer
with evidence of soccer being played in china in the years 200-300 B.C. soccer is one of the oldest surviving sports -
May 10, 1454
soccer threw the years
rumors say the first soccer ball used in englad was the head of a danish brigand. It is said that during medieval times, the old form of soccer used to allow many ill practices like kicking, punching, biting and gouging. -
May 11, 1500
italy
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 of the game of calcio. -
soccer legal again :D
soccer became legal again in England. -
jamestown
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 the beach, the field a half-mile wide with goals 1 mile apart, with as many as 1000 players at a time. -
its offical
Eton College of England established a set of rules for the games -
reform
The rules were further standardized and a new version was adopted by all the schools, college and universities, known as the Cambridge Rules -
raggel fraggel
October 26 of 1863, the Football Association was formed when eleven London schools and clubs came together at the Freemason's Tavern to establish a single set of rules to administer any football match that were to be played among them. On December 8 1863, Association Football and Rugby Football finally split onto two different organizations. -
olympics
Soccer played the Olympic Games for the first time -
FIFA
Establishment of FIFA by delegates from France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland at a meeting in Paris on the 21st of May. -
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champions
The American women's team won the first-ever women's soccer event at the Olympics
