The rules of soul were quite vague, and the number of players completely random. Modern football was born in England in the middle of the 19th century, on the grounds of Eton or Westminster colleges. Each team having its own rules, there were teams of thirteen or fifteen players, like in Cambridge, but gradually, we went everywhere to eleven. Why ?
According to the legend, it is because often, the college students…
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