A Chinese claim to origins of soccer

Published: 6 April 2010 y., Tuesday

Brits may have claim as the inventors of modern soccer, but the sport has its roots far to the east. At the Beijing World Park, tourists from Belarus, the Ukraine and Russia donned traditional Han costumes and joined in a game of cuju, soccer’s ancestral sport.


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