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06-12-2014, 02:14 PM
The History of Soccer: From Violent Pastime to Multi-Million Dollar Industry
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With the World Cup about to kick off, there are many out there who have ** idea about the history of this long-loved sport. If you love football, you’re probably only aware of its history from recent times. But football has a long, gruesomely violent, and hugely interesting past. And so begins a tale of how a violent peasant pastime became a multi-million pound industry.
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Athens FC had a clear height advantage.
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Traces of football’s history go way, way back. The Greeks had a game called phaininda (http://hetairoi.de/en/history/civil-life/the-game-phaininda/), which seems to have involved athletes hurling and catching a ball (there is a marble relief of this in the National Museum in Athens). This game may have been a precursor of the Roman game harpastum (http://www.aerobiologicalengineering.com/wxk116/Roman/BallGames/harpasta.html), where a small, hard ball was thrown among a throng of players divided into teams. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/12/history-of-soccer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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With the World Cup about to kick off, there are many out there who have ** idea about the history of this long-loved sport. If you love football, you’re probably only aware of its history from recent times. But football has a long, gruesomely violent, and hugely interesting past. And so begins a tale of how a violent peasant pastime became a multi-million pound industry.
http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA2LzEwL2MyL0FuY2llbnRHcmVlLjA3MDlmLmpwZw pwCXRodW1iCTU3NXg0MDk2Pg/3f4006ca/e04/Ancient-Greek-Soccer.jpg
Athens FC had a clear height advantage.
Image: Wikimedia Commons, Gun Powder Ma (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gun_Powder_Ma)
Traces of football’s history go way, way back. The Greeks had a game called phaininda (http://hetairoi.de/en/history/civil-life/the-game-phaininda/), which seems to have involved athletes hurling and catching a ball (there is a marble relief of this in the National Museum in Athens). This game may have been a precursor of the Roman game harpastum (http://www.aerobiologicalengineering.com/wxk116/Roman/BallGames/harpasta.html), where a small, hard ball was thrown among a throng of players divided into teams. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/12/history-of-soccer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Soccer (http://mashable.com/category/soccer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Sport (http://mashable.com/category/sport/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), History (http://mashable.com/category/history/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Us (http://mashable.com/us/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/GLuO3B1kCkM