hello, my favorite sport is soccer or football to others
I don't really know much about soccer.  All I know is that it's the third most played team sport in the US.
yeah i can see that being rank only third in the US
I found out recently that the laws of the game of soccer originated in England in 1863.
seems it would have been longer 
Yeah, I'm looking things up for fun since we're talking about it, and it dates back to medieval times, though I guess the rules weren't laid down till much later.
that makes more since,  England wanted to standardize it
Apparently there was a common origin of Rugby in there too, and at one point there was a split between football and rugby, so they developed their own game.
some still call rugby. rugby football, i guess the origins of both explains this
England normally refers to association football.
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Rugby has long been popular in the North of England and by the 1880s the region's clubs had come to dominate. The game was popular amongst working class people, unlike the clubs in Southern England whose players belonged to the middle or upper class. Rugby competition at the time did not allow paying players any wages; the working class players felt they could not afford time off to train and play, nor could they afford to miss work through injury
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