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King Edward III banned soccer in 1365 owing to the growing incidents of violence
and military indulgence in the sport.
Modern History of Soccer
1815, a major development took place that made soccer popular in Universities,
Colleges and Schools.
Interesting Facts About Soccer
Soccer is called football in practically every country except the US and Canada
is the first cool soccer fact.
Soccer is distinguished from rugby and American/Canadian football in that it is primarily played with the feet. Touching
the ball with hands is not allowed.
Soccer fun facts continue with Soccer being originally called association football. "Soccer" is a corruption of "assoc" which is derived in turn from "association" and the English people tending to shorten their words
The University of North Carolina has won an incredible 16 national championships
in women's soccer since the first US college tournament in 1982 as facts about
soccer continue.
Cool soccer facts include the World Cup being the biggest soccer tournament in the world. It is held every four years in a
different host country.
Fun soccer fact is that United States Major League Soccer made its debut in 1996, shortly after the wildly successful
1994 World Cup was hosted by the United States.
United States has more official soccer players than any other nation
in the world - almost 18 million.
20 red cards were shown during a 1993 game between Sportivo
Ameliano and General Caballero in Paraguay making this a very funny
soccer fact.