soccer history
Soccer, a sport with a long and at times awkward history which is now in modern day highly viewed as the greatest sport in the world. Would you think kicking around human skulls or playing ball with pig bladders have to do with soccer? Well in early times it did, and believe it or not it lead to what we know of soccer today. Soccer went through probably the most changes in any sport of today and also has the longest. Yet where did soccer start and how did this game become so widely popular today? Soccer didn’t just start in one place and other countries just adopted it, lots of top countries have their own unique and odd stories of how soccer originally started there. ... By the 1880s soccer had been taken up by the working classes, and games organized by towns, counties, or private clubs could almost bring industry to a standstill. ... In 1857 the first soccer club was founded in Sheffield, England.