CHINA INVENTED FOOTBALL-BLATTER SAYS SO.

Around the 2nd -3rd Centruy BC (Han Dynasty), the military forces in China played a game called Tsu Chu, which involved kicking a leather ball stuffed of fur, into a hole. The Chinese, not content with overpowering our steel industry and dominating our university courses, now claim that they invented FOOTBALL. In their new £17 million Football Museum, Sep Blatter's images and quotes appear in many places and there is even a statue of him, so they must be right. The Chinese and Blatter are having a dig at us.
The Museum is linked to the National Football Museum in Manchester, so the English have had much to say in the set up.

Blatter declared China as the "true birthplace of football" in 2000 and this National Football Museum was built in the city of Linzi. A quote he made at the beginning of his tenure at FIFA, leaves us in no doubt that "football originated in China".
http://www.topendsports.com/sport/soccer/history.htm


Cuju (Tsu Chu) was a game that, involved "keepy up", without using hands or arms, before heading the leather ball into a hole above head height. Blatter thanks Linzi for "creating the world of football".

China and Japan (kemari) are recorded to have been in opposition in an "international" version of their two games possibly around 50BC and definitely AD 611.
Whilst the English hang onto the creation of the Laws of the Game, the Chinese were "there" first and may genuinely claim to be the first to play the game. In the Museum a map and timeline lead the viewer through China to Eqypt, Greece, Rome and France inevitably as civilsations evolve, before landing on England.

It is remarkable that China, with its huge population and longevity, has only appeared in one World Cup Finals and then they lost every qualifying game. Maybe their formation was a bit vulnerable!

Blatter and the Chinese gets their knives into the English, by labelling a photograph of English hooligans, the "Rise and Fall of English Football". Granted, it's a long way from the days of the Corinthians but at least we provided proper goals!

Do look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zumYsKAMhNI