London (AFP) – One of the oldest existing copies of the rule book of football has sold for almost £57,000, auction house Sotheby's said on Tuesday. The auctioneers logged the final price on its website as £56,700 ($77,200, 65,900 euros), saying the bidding had been driven by its historical significance and the insight it gave […]

The speculation surrounding the early history of soccer in Latin America is akin to a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. Fantastical rumors surround the founding of club teams and murder abounds as conjectures and lies paint an uncertain picture of what soccer was really like a century ago. With few if any primary sources left to […]