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Who invented football? Hamburg museum seeks answer
Thu Jun 1, 2006 12:04am ET
By Iain Rogers
HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Who really invented soccer -- Native
Americans? South American Indians? Was it Mexicans, Florentines,
Chinese, Japanese or Eskimos?
As Germany gears up for this month's World Cup, the "Fascination
Football" exhibition at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology seeks the
answer to this question by tracing the roots of the modern game back
thousands of years.
Colorful displays of balls, costumes, footwear and other equipment
bring the ancient sports from which modern soccer evolved to life.
Visitors can collect 100 different beer mat-sized cards detailing
facts about the game as they walk around.
"I'm not a football fan but I am just fascinated by the variety,
all the different things they have brought together here," said
Lucia Niederwestberg, 57, a teacher from Hamburg.
"It's nice that I have the chance to find something out about
the game other than just watch the matches on television with
my brother."
The earliest form of soccer is generally thought to be a Chinese
game called cuju ("kickball"), created some 4,700 years ago to
teach soldiers about cooperation and vigilance.
Two teams would do battle on a rectangular pitch and aim to shoot
a leather ball through a hole high up on an intricately decorated
gate, an example of which can be seen at the exhibition.
"Fascination Football" also tells of 6,000-year-old stone balls
unearthed in the southwestern United States that are similar to
ones used today by Native Americans in two kinds of soccer-like games.
以下省略
這是外電編譯的文章，由路透社的Iain Rogers所撰寫
當然囉，記者自己看到明顯錯誤沒修正也是不應該
還是說足球真的是created some 4,700 years ago？
但年代時期有誤是真的
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