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  • Ninh explains: What is football?

  • That's easy, it's this, right?

  • This is football.

  • Played with pads and helmets and vicious hits and sometimes scantily clad uniforms.

  • If you go to anywhere in America, and say the word 'football', everyone will assume

  • you're talking about this.

  • However next door in Canadathey play something that looks very similar to American

  • Football, but it's not.

  • If you ask a Canadian what football is, they'll point you out to this.

  • What's that I can hear?

  • It's the annoying sound of British haters who come out with the same tired ass joke.

  • Year in and year out.

  • Oh they don't actually kick the ball, and their ball isn't actually round.

  • It should be called handegg, it's handegg, hand egg, hand egg hahaha hand egg.

  • Firstly, that handegg joke wasn't funny in the 90's and it's still not funny now.

  • And secondly, they do actually kick the ball.

  • It's actually a really important part of the game, though people who haven't watched

  • a great deal of it would actually know that.

  • And thirdly, this is not an egg shape.

  • This is an egg shape.

  • There's a difference.

  • Speaking of the English, to them this is football.

  • The sport played where you actually have to kick the ball, like, most of the time.

  • Association football (that's what it's officially called) but sometimes it's called

  • Soccer because well, it's there, is probably the number one played and watched sport in

  • the world right now.

  • Aha, so this is real football.

  • Well, to most English people it is.

  • But there are some that believe this is football.

  • You might know this as Rugby Union or Rugby League, but the official title of the sport

  • is 'Rugby Football'.

  • If you don't believe me, check out the governing bodies official titles.

  • Yeah, Rugby is a kind of football.

  • It's a thing.

  • And they also claim that they played their game before the formation of the Football

  • Association.

  • But in general, each code of Rugby refers to themselves as 'Rugby' to differentiate

  • it from association football, and use the terms 'Rugby Union' and Rugby League'

  • to differentiate them from each other.

  • The Irish however, claim to have invented their version of football – a sport called

  • Gaelic Football way before the invention of Rugby.

  • Even though their pitch and posts looks suspiciously like a game across the water, and their ball

  • and gameplay suspiciously looks like another game across the water.

  • Nevertheless, the Irish claim that this is real football, and football in Ireland refers

  • to Gaelic Football, not Soccer.

  • Enter, the Australians.

  • Who from halfway across the world also claim to have invented their version of football,

  • independently of the Irish, and claim that their game preceded theirs.

  • Even though one of their founders was (quite suspiciously) a former Rugby player.

  • Hmmm, well it's a bone of contention that's disputed amongst historiansbut football

  • in Australia generally refers to Aussie Rules Football, not soccer.

  • So is there a game that's indisputably older than these?

  • Yes there is, and it's by the Italians.

  • To some Italians this is football.

  • Calcio Storico, translated as 'historic football' was the original version of football

  • before the invention of soccer.

  • It's based on an old Roman game called Harpastum and in general, it's one part football,

  • 90 parts beating the shit out of each other.

  • This game is violent and historically Popes were allowed to play this gamearmed with

  • swords!

  • A freaking sword, are you serious?!

  • Being stabbed to death by the holiest man on earth in the name of sport, is a really

  • bad deal.

  • Okay, violent popes aside, what's actually the oldest form of football?

  • Well, if you're asking the question 'who invented the first game that involves kicking

  • a ball' it's actually the Chinese.

  • Yes, they played a similar sport over 2000 years ago, where they had to kick balls in

  • order to score goals.

  • This was mainly played during festivals and celebrations.

  • Even FIFA (the corrupt worldwide governing body of Association Football) acknowledges

  • on their own website, that it was the Chinese that are the first to play any variation of

  • the sport of football.

  • Sothis is football?

  • Yes, obviously.

  • Come on now, seriously?

  • Well, to ascertain what football is, I've come up with a simple dictionary style definition.

  • Any form of team game involving kicking (and in some cases handling) a ball, which may

  • or may not be completely spherical, that is the most popular form of the game in the country

  • that it is played in.

  • So by that definition, in the USit's this game.

  • In Canada, it's this, in some parts of the world, it's this or this.

  • In Ireland this is football, in Australia that's football.

  • In Italy, that's footballkind of, in Chinathat was originally football.

  • And in many countries in the world, this is football.

  • One word, several sports, all football.

  • ………… Hang on wise guy, what do you think football

  • is?

  • It's thisobviously.

  • Ninh Lywww.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK

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