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SOCCER
Forms of soccer have been played for thousands of years by various civilizations. As far back as 2500 B.C.E., the Chinese played a form of the game and called it Tsu Chu. The natives of the Pacific Islands played the game using their hands and feet, and they used coconuts and pig bladders as balls. The Inuit of northern Canada played soccer on ice and used balls filled with caribou hair and grass. Other Native Americans played on fields that had enough space for 1000 players to be playing at the same time, and matches usually lasted for more than one day. The games were so rough that the players often got broken bones. In Mexico and Central America, people invented the rubber ball and played in courts 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 meters) long surrounded by walls several feet high. In the middle of each wall, there was a stone with a hole in the middle of a wooden ring, and the idea was for players to hit the hard rubber ball through the hole or ring.
But it was not until 1863 in England that the first set of rules was put together to make soccer the game it is today. Soccer was spread throughout the world by British sailors and settlers, and all major innovations in the game such as leagues, professionalism. And international matches originated in England.