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The Invention of Soccer

Everyone says the English invented soccer — but the real story starts 2,000 years earlier with Chinese soldiers kicking a feather-stuffed ball through a net, and Japanese nobles playing a no-hands game just to keep it in the air. Find out how a heated argument at a London pub in 1863 turned an ancient, worldwide idea into one official global sport.

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