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Who discovered football?

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Since ancient times, peoples from around the world have played games which involved kicking or carrying a ball. The more modern version of traditional football mainly got its origin in England, though.

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Captain Randolph P Soccer invented soccer in 1899 as a way for his troops to unwind in between bouts of genocide during the Boer war.

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