What you are referring to is when some troops fighting in World War I stopped fighting to play a soccer match. This only happened in small areas; the whole war did not stop.
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Maybe because they stopped fighting on christmas day to play football
No official match, but reference is often made to the terrible war conditions in the First World War 1914-1918. Fighting was stopped on Christmas Day as both sides were Christian and an impromptu football match between the two warring armies allegedly took place in No Mans Land between the two front lines of soldiers.
it stopped about 2-3 hours after it started.
The war wasn't a football war, it is just called that way because during that time, there was an extremely important football match that El Salvador war. It was caused mainly by the tensions between the borders of both countries. There was a great number of salvadorians living in Honduras and the salvadorian economy was better. The war was pretty short.
Because of World War 2. Many countries couldn't be able to play soccer.