soccer
history
The modern history of the most popular sport on the planet covers more than 100 years of existence. It began in 1863, when in England the paths of "rugby-football" (rugby) and "association football" (football) were separated, based on the oldest association in the world
The oldest form of the game, of which one has certain science, is a manual of military exercises that goes back to the China of the dynasty of Han, in centuries II and III AC.
It was known as "Ts'uh Kúh", and it consisted of a leather ball filled with feathers and hairs, which had to be thrown with the foot to a small net. This was placed between long bamboo poles, separated by an opening of 30 to 40 centimeters.
Both types of game have the same root and a family tree of very vast ramification. A deep and meticulous research has given a half dozen different games in which there are aspects that refer the origin and historical development of football