It’s the sport played round the world. As we have seen recently soccer is a big deal in most cultures. During the FIFA World Cup 2010 the world was rooting for their teams to make their countries proud. During the summer months it was the top thought on everyone's minds, in all conversations and on all news coverage. It seemed like the world, all cultures, were unified for a split second.
Soccer has probably been played for centuries, but the first record of its standardization was at Cambridge University in 1848. Today it is a global sport played on every continent. The Cambridge Rules were drawn up at Trinity College in the mid-nineteenth and then migrated to other schools in England. The first professional soccer match took place in 1872 between Scotland and England in Glasgow.
When I went to Italy soccer was the sport of choice. Children play the game from birth and are experts by their tenth birthday. The first question my cousins had for me was "do you play soccer?" I had played soccer when I was younger but 12 years later my skills were no match for that of my cousins. Soccer is a way of life in Italy, as it is in most countries and cultures around the world. It is how everyone makes friends, it builds a community and eventually your team becomes your family.
Soccer is the sport that reaches all parts of the world. The proof is the recent World Cup was the most watched sporting event in the world. It’s a sport that has a power to bring people together unlike other sports.
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