To bad Canada is not there,first international soccer game 1885 the USA and Canada played their first game of football or soccer in Newark and ended with Canada winning 1-0,but Footy or soccer was played by the American Natives 1620 In North America, native American Indians Native American tribes, primarily the Algonkin and Powhatan tribes playing a variation of the sport known as pasuckuakohowog,Pasuckuakohowog literally meaning "kicking ball sport" the ball representing the sun god of fertility celebrating life, it was reported to be played on fields a half mile in diameter and as long as nearly a mile.Teams would have nearly 100 people,Pasuckuakohowog which literally translates to "they gather to play ball with the foot.
1865-1876
Soccer was initiated as an organized college sport in the USA in the years following the Civil War. Princeton and Rutgers Universities engaged in the first intercollegiate soccer match Nov. 6, 1876, in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers won the match 6-4. The game was more similar to both rugby and soccer than gridiron football.
1600 In Alaska and Canada the native Inuit played a game called aqsaqtuk on ice, using balls stuffed with grass, caribou hair, and moss. the ball representing the round sun the stars and the planets celebrating mother earth, it was reported to be played on fields a half mile in diameter and as long , One legend tells of two villages playing football against each other for days with goals 10 miles apart...yup Natives or first nations people first played the beautiful game here in Canada.
