We often forget this simplicity. This book is about the fundamental components of the game. This simplicity helped me to understand soccer. Although we do not know the actual origin of soccer, we do know certain things about its history. The game as it is today evolved very gradually and a form of soccer is said to have been played many centuries before Christ.
Egyptian pictures show people playing a game like soccer.
But it was actually in Greece that a definite game began which eventually had a name - Spiskiros. Soccer officially arrived in Brazil in 1894. It was introduced by Charles Miller, a Brazilian of English parentage. There is no need to tell you that soccer spread in Brazil and throughout the rest of the world. More people today play this universal game than any other sport.