Soccer Kicks Back

Soccer has to be one of the original sports gamessoccer shoes after that match. It's a wonder soccer
every played by people. I can just imagine caveever caught on with the Danes after a defeat like that
dwellers kicking around the old soccer ball. Or maybe itone.
was a soccer rock? A soccer coconut perhaps? It'sSoccer Wars
got to be one of the simplest form of sports playAs with many games these days, soccer had it's
imaginable. I mean, really, I kick the ball this way andorigins on the battlefield. Rival towns would play soccer
you try to kick the ball that way. Whether the ballagainst each other, with little or no rules, and massive
(coconut?) goes more this way or more that waysized teams. Violent, bloody games, with hundreds of
determines the winner. While it may be easy for me topeople kicking, punching, tripping in an attempt to win
imagine soccer being kicked around by a bunch ofthe soccer match. Sounds kind of like today, except
caveman sports enthusiasts, the earliest official recordtoday, that sounds like a more apt description of the
of soccer by played was in China about 3000 yearsfans instead of the players. You think it's tough being a
ago. Wow, that's like 750 World Cups, if anyone wassoccer referee today, imagine a few hundred years
keeping track.ago. At least today, they keep the fans and referees
Ultimate Soccer Headerseparated. As time went on, and the local authorities
Soccer is also kind of bizarre, in that it's one of therealized that banning soccer wasn't going to work,
few sports I can think of where you use your head formore civilized soccer fans brought rules and order to
more than just strategizing. You actually can use yourthe game of soccer. Not everyone agreed, and there
head to make contact with the ball. Imagine trying thatwere some splinter groups that went off and formed
in football (American) or hockey for that matter.derivatives of the game. Rugby was one.
Nothing link deflecting a slap shot with the forehead forSoccer As Civilized Play
a game winning goal. Stitches don't hurt that much.So today we have the modern game of soccer that
Those soccer guys are kinda funny that way. But thewe even allow our children to play. A far reach from
ultimate head shot in soccer was a little more bizarre.the early beginnings of the sport. Perhaps an analogy
Gruesome actually. Apparently in more medieval times,can be drawn between soccer and many new forms
the head of a defeated Dannish prince was used asof expression. In the beginning, things can be a bloody
the ball by early day soccer hooligans in the east ofmess, but a few thousand years of civility and anything
England. Yuck. Think I'd be shopping for some newcan be reduced to child's play.