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It was in the middle of the north Atlantic during a break from raiding Dieppe-bound merchant shipping during the Napoleonic wars. The captain of His Majesty's Ship The Redoubt, Soccer observed some of his men making idle fun with a bladder stuffed into a gauze-shirt made waterproof with whale blubber, and recorded the response to some of his enquiries in his Royal Navy log book. The game thus described couldn't really be said to be 'soccer,' but these early jottings were referred to at the inaugural meeting of the Football Association, and formed the basis of the set of formal rules that emerged from that gathering - to the extent that this new pastime continued to be called by the name it had held since the captain's demise on the quarter-deck of The Redoubt during the battle of Aboukir - Soccer.
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Where was football soccer invented at?
Association Football (aka Soccer) was invented in England.
Where did soccer originate in Italy?
Roman Italy invented the game we now call soccer or football.
Who invent soccer?
the English invented soccer
Who was the inventor of the American sport soccer?
Soccer was not invented by an American
Did Pele invent the bicycle kick?
No Pele didn't invented soccer. China invented soccer in 1258. Though Pele invented some rules in soccer. Like, man of the match, possession and things like that. Thing Pele didn't invented soccer. It was CHina
