England?s obsession with ?the beautiful game? of football dates back 145 years when association football and rugby football went their separate ways. But, although the English can lay claim to inventing the modern version of football, there is evidence that a similar game called Tsu Chu was played as early as three centuries B.C. during the Chinese dynasty of Han.

The Japanese also lay claim to being inventors of the sport, highlighting the game of Kemari, which dates from about AD600 and more...
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