Answer:
England invented a game of running and kicking a ball in the mid-19th century. ( although the Chinese claim to have played a version centuries earlier). Records trace the history of soccer back more than 2,000 years ago to ancient China. Greece, Rome, and parts of Central America also claim to have started the sport; but it was England that transitioned soccer, or what the British and many other people around the world call “football,” into the game we know today.
