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An Illustrated History of World Soccer

From Alan Hylands, About.com

From it's medieval beginnings as a group of rowdy men fighting over a blown up pig's stomach to the beginnings of the professional game in England in the nineteenth century and through world soccer's coming of age in the twentieth century to the present day, we explore some of the seminal moments in the history of world soccer.
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