The Emergence of Soccer: The First Game of the World's Most Popular Sport (Not Historically Accurate)

Soccer originated about 2,000 years ago in ancient China. The sport was created when two villages had a territorial dispute over a long strip of fertile land that separated the two villages. The ancient Chinese people were peaceful, so instead of resorting to violence, they decided to settle the dispute in a different way. The leaders of both villages came together and created a game that they called soccer. Two teams of 11 players face off on a field, which will be the fertile strip of land, where there are two wooden stakes impaled into the ground to create a goal on each side of the field. The objective of the game is to get a pig bladder, which is used as a ball, into the opponents goal using any part of the body other than your hands and arms. The first team to score would win the match. The two village leaders went back home and explained the rules of soccer to their villagers. Whichever village won the match, would get the strip of fertile land. Both villagers gathered 11 men that they believed were best suited for a match of soccer. Both teams met up at the strip of land that they were fighting and they lined up on the it. The match was ready to be played.

 The team on the Eastern half of the field was composed of slim, agile, and handsome young men. The team on the Western half was composed of hairy, muscular, and ugly men.The different characteristics of both teams represented balance on the soccer field, just like how "the right- and left-handed twins built balance into the world" (Turtle's Back 36) in the Native American interpretation on the origin of the world The game started and the Western team dominated the game early on as they could out power the weaker Eastern players. The Western players took advantage of the lack of rules of this early form of soccer and they began to kick and trip their opponents. However, the Western team couldn't manage to kick the pig bladder into the goal. Although they were powerful, the Western team was very uncoordinated with their feet and they struggled to control the ball. 20 minutes had passed and neither team has scored yet. The Western team began to grow tired, and they couldn't keep up with the pace of the game. The slimmer and more fit players of the Eastern team began to take over the game. Eventually, they were able to get passed their exhausted opponents and they scored the first ever goal. As previously agreed to, the Eastern team won the fertile land, however, after the game of soccer, the field was completely destroyed. Even though the land was not suitable for farming, the two villages were jovial because the game they had created was more important than land that could be used for harvest, they had created a game that 3.5 billion people would be fans of in the future.