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5000 BCE
Creation of soccer
China Military forces would kick around a leather ball. -
1300
Laws to stop the game
King Edward the third passed laws to stop the game because of how popular it was. -
1500
More soccer like rules brought to life
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. -
1572
Another ban law
Queen Elizabeth I of England, enacted laws that could sentence a football player to jail for a week followed by penance in a church. -
Legal again
Football became legal again in England. -
Soccer like game in North America
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. -
Rules set
Eton College of England established a set of rules for the games. -
USA colleges
Football was played among the Northeastern universities and colleges of Harvard, Princeton, Amherst and Brown. -
First soccer club
The first soccer club formed anywhere outside of England was the Oneida Football Club, Boston USA. -
No hands rule
The rule of not touching the ball with your hands was brought into the game. -
Penalty Kick
The pentalty kick was added to the game -
Soccer was in the Olympics
The Olympics added soccer for the first time -
First world cup tournament
The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) held soccer's first World Cup tournament in Montevideo, Uruguay, with 13 teams. -
The United states women team won the world cup
The women's U.S. team won the world cup for the first time. -
Womens team won the olympics
The Womens U.S.A. team won the soccer olympics for the first time.