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The weird and wonderful history of goal posts

Edit FourFourTwo 10 Jul 2016
2 min ago. @https.//twitter.com/@nick_moore. Nick Moore. Topics. comments ... "It’s just a couple of posts and a crossbar,” Paolo Di Canio once pointed out to FourFourTwo as he bounded around Swindon Town’s training ground ... The Italian wasn’t wrong ... “ ... Around 200AD, Roman armies indulged in harpastum, a pastime that involved kicking a ball but was more about knocking seven gladiatorial bells out of each other than taking it anywhere ... “ ... Goals ... ....

Cleverman recap: season one, episode four – Hairy Juice meets the patriarchy

Edit The Guardian 24 Jun 2016
The Namarrador returns, tensions simmer in the Zone and there’s a charge against patriarchal paradigms in another plot-packed and ambitious episode ... It will screen on BBC3 later this year. @LatimoreJack. email ... Inside the Zone, tensions between the Skin Mob and the Hairies continue to simmer. Instead of the fight ring though, the kiddies are now playing a game like Harpastum, which reminds me of the 80s sci-fi film Salute of the Jugger ... ....

Who Invented Soccer?

Edit About.com 01 Nov 2015
There are a number of conflicting beliefs concerning the question of who invented soccer. Some suggest that the history of soccer dates back as far as 2500BC, during which time the Greeks, Egyptians and Chinese all appear to have partaken in feet-based games involving a ball ... The Roman game of ‘Harpastum’ was a possession based ball game where each side would attempt to retain possession of a small ball for as long as possible ... ....

Germany’s not-so-long footballing history (FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2015
(Source. FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Football is steeped in tradition in Germany and the game has long enjoyed widespread popularity in the country ... Students of the game may be familiar with terms such as Episkyros, Harpastum and Popo, which are all early descriptions of perhaps the most important invention in human history. the ball, or the football to be more precise ... Resistance to the 'English disease'....

The Calcio Storico, the most brutal sport on earth – in pictures

Edit The Guardian 27 Jun 2015
... century, which originated from the ancient roman ‘harpastum’, and is played in teams of 27, using both feet and hands....

Sport picture of the day: historic football, the gentleman's game played by hooligans

Edit The Guardian 25 Jun 2015
Calcio Fiorentino, is an early form of football from the 16th century that originated from the ancient roman ‘harpastum’, and is played in teams of 27, using both feet and hands and allows tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking, ......

The History of Soccer: From Violent Pastime to Multi-Million Dollar Industry

Edit Mashable 12 Jun 2014
With the World Cup about to kick off, there are many out there who have no idea about the history of this long-loved sport. If you love football, you’re probably only aware of its history from recent times. But football has a long, gruesomely violent, and hugely interesting past ... Image ... This game may have been a precursor of the Roman game harpastum, where a small, hard ball was thrown among a throng of players divided into teams ... Image....

Fifa finds a field of dreams in China

Edit Khaleej Times 07 Jun 2014
Despite its long supposed footballing history China’s national team failed to qualify for the World Cup in Brazil later this month ... “So the link is tenuous.” ... An ancient stone carving at the Acropolis Museum in Athens shows a naked Greek athlete balancing a ball on his thigh, and some say episkyros evolved into a game played by the Romans, called harpastum, which was then transported to Britain ... “China is obvious ... ....

FIFA finds field of dreams in China

Edit Independent online (SA) 07 Jun 2014
Zibo, China - Images of a beaming FIFA President Sepp Blatter and a small blue certificate in the Chinese city of Zibo proclaim it as the birthplace of football, to the fury of English experts ... AFP ... An ancient stone carving at the Acropolis Museum in Athens shows a naked Greek athlete balancing a ball on his thigh, and some say episkyros evolved into a game played by the Romans, called harpastum, which was then transported to Britain ... ....

Experts pan Blatter’s claim of soccer’s birth

Edit Taipei Times 06 Jun 2014
Images of a beaming FIFA president Sepp Blatter and a small blue certificate in the Chinese city of Zibo proclaim it as the birthplace of soccer, to the fury of English experts ... An ancient stone carving at the Acropolis Museum in Athens shows a naked Greek athlete balancing a ball on his thigh and some say episkyros evolved into a game played by the Romans, called harpastum, which was then transported to Britain....

10 Ancient Sports That Are Completely Terrifying

Edit ListVerse 06 Feb 2014
9 Harpastum ... An early predecessor to the modern sport of rugby, harpastum was an ancient Roman game played with a small, hard ball of the same name ... Some variations involved a single player in the middle of a scrum, attempting to grasp the harpastum and escape, with the opponents trying to keep him inside and away from the ball....
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