Saturday, February 2, 2013

Creator football


Apparently the origin of football is not from England, but from Paraguay who had just qualified for the first time to qualify for the World Cup quarterfinals.

This fact was revealed by the very first newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, he found evidence that one of the tribes in Paraguay, Guarani, played football long before the British claim that they invented football.

In layman's knowledge of football that the sport is famous in the world are found in England and then played to a number of other countries. In 1863, the English Football Federation (FA) then create standard rules football which eventually became the forerunner of today's modern football.

However, knowledge is broken by an article in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Monday, June 28, 2010 edition. In the article it says that football first discovered by the Guarani tribe in Paraguay in 1793, 70 years before the British claim.

The article uses the source of a priest named Juan Manuel Peramas, who wrote a diary while stationed in Paraguay in 1793. Peramas writes, "(The Guarani) is usually played with the ball, though made ​​of hard rubber, but quite light and fast if kicked, the ball bounces quickly before it stopped."
"They did not throw the ball with his hands, as we do, but using feet deep, feed and control with dexterity and precision."
The article's author, Gianpaolo Romanato, making Peramas writings as evidence that English is not the inventor of football.
"Guarani tribe clearly three centuries ago was playing. In the end are they (Guarani) is really the inventor of football, "said Romanato.

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