Ancient Chinese Football Freestylers

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China is sometimes said to be the home of football.
Scattered references in ancient documents and legendary epics suggest China was playing a type of freestyle football.
But what did this freestyle football look like? Does it have any connection to the game we know today?
Written by David Goldblatt, illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.
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@samuelnickels3212 2 жыл бұрын

The Ancient scripts, from hundreds of years ago. It says here about “The F2” that they played this ancient game with “tekkers” and “swazz”

@danielkelly1335 2 жыл бұрын

And lied about being in the arsenal academy

@cjayloco3240 Жыл бұрын

Mad

@AK-ru9rs 2 жыл бұрын

"Ole's at the wheel, Fred is the GOAT" - Sun Tzu, Art of War

@otto_jk 2 жыл бұрын

Wise man has balance in his team, idiot buys two forwards when his midfield is Mcfred -Confucius

@muno301 2 жыл бұрын

@@otto_jk this comment is epic

@johnnahason4851 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@Twitty00700 2 жыл бұрын

@@otto_jk worthy of a main video comment

@charizardx4863 2 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂😂😂

@saki1333 2 жыл бұрын

Sun Tzu art of freestyle is the unreleased masterpiece that tifo scientists are looking for till this day

@ajbahlam 2 жыл бұрын

Sun Tzu: My favourite coach is Scolari. To summarize his tactics, I wrote a book.

@kohchungwei 2 жыл бұрын

Shaolin Soccer

@fishyfish6510 2 жыл бұрын

Steel Leg Light Weight Iron head Iron Shirt Hooking Leg Bruce Lee 2.0 😂

@antonioemilio9932 2 жыл бұрын

Ti zu qiu is literally to kick foot ball so I really doubt that they would call it soccer.

@bernardlws8329 2 жыл бұрын

Oh hi that guy from twitter

@danielwallace1759 2 жыл бұрын

Did they have a midfielder drop off to give the centre backs more passing options?

@vladirackpubama6785 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 bruh

@pazthepole2814 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 U mad cos England has a manged to steal something again rather than acc creating It

@Kaspisify 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 OP is very very very obviously joking. He isn't actually asking if they had midfielders drop in-between the centre backs...

@danielwallace1759 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kaspisify No I actually am

@icandothisallday986 2 жыл бұрын

Fer-chang-dinho

@sfisozonke865 2 жыл бұрын

China when they qualify for the World Cup: It's coming home!

@thewatch3124 2 жыл бұрын

People hate to admit football is truthfully, factually and rightfully an English invention due to deep jealousy and Anglophobia so they do all sorts of mental gymnastics to make ridiculous claims that other historical societies were the “true” inventors of the game. First people claimed “the Romans actually invented the game!” then people claimed the Aztecs invented the game, and now the current claim is that the ancient Chinese somehow were playing football when they really were just kicking a ball around in a circle. Kicking a ball with no rules is not football, what football is extremely clear: a game with 11 players on each size, fixed field dimensions, goalkeepers, corners, centre circle, throw-ins, free-kicks, specific ball measurements etc. All these things were developed in England in the 1800s, and therefore, football is an English sport. If you want more proof, talk to actual Chinese people. They see football as a Western (English) sport, not as their own. That’s why Mao banned the sport alongside other Western sports during the Communist Era. Football is an English sport, I know it hurts your core to accept this, but there’s nothing you can do. Football is English. Seethe.

@sfisozonke865 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 I know everything you just said is true. I said what I said as a joke. But the fact is that football does have it's roots elsewhere is also a fact. The modern rules of the game were invented in Britain. But the British had influences from other countries and cultures in order to come up with what we know to be football today.

@thewatch3124 2 жыл бұрын

@@sfisozonke865 that is false though. England didn’t have influences from other countries in the invention of football. They were only influenced by themselves, by historical village sports played in England even earlier. Do you really think Ancient Chinese game which had become extinct had an influence on Englishmen inventing sports in the 1860s? Surprise, it didn’t.

@sfisozonke865 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 Everything eventually evolves over time, I don't know why this is hard to understand understand. Kicking a ball in teams is as old as the hills but of course back then there were no rules and regulations so it wasn't a 'sport' until the world became more modern.

@thewatch3124 2 жыл бұрын

@@sfisozonke865 The Neanderthals invented cricket and baseball because they used wooden sticks to whack animals. 🤣🤣

@AK-ru9rs 2 жыл бұрын

EA seeing this as an opportunity to revive FIFA street (Ancient China Expansion)

@evanmarshall6204 2 жыл бұрын

I would not be mad about that

@afifhunter1295 2 жыл бұрын

STOP GIVING EM IDEAS!

@Yarblocosifilitico 2 жыл бұрын

I wished haha, all EA thinks about is the online card casino

@yungpep 2 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there 😏

@Kaspisify 2 жыл бұрын

Vorta

@Frostypower 2 жыл бұрын

The graphics on this are next level

@mrnoodlelai 2 жыл бұрын

This is top top content. Actual research and graphic. Well done for making actual football knowledge not constantly miking Ole and manu story for click.

@sususegar 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, interesting look at a long forgotten history of football (or rather, kickball). This is not too relevant to modern football, but anyone at Tifo wants to tackle the Sepak Takraw sport? You could say it's like a hybrid version of football + badminton, with crazy hang time aerobics. Or try tackling Jianzi or Chapteh, another version of keepie-uppies using weighted feather aka featherball. These 2 games are not limited to any specific country today, but the origins are kinda hazily traced to China and/or South-East Asia. Upvote this comment to get the guys at Tifo working on it!

@bramantyaprayoganugraha5301 2 жыл бұрын

Sepak Takraw is more Volleyball+football hybrid

@sususegar 2 жыл бұрын

@@bramantyaprayoganugraha5301 betul sih, I was struggling to think of another sport. I thought of tennis first but that was wrong.

@eliad6543 2 жыл бұрын

Sepak Takraw is nuts, but idk what Tifo would make about it, it's quite a different sport

@erok2038 2 жыл бұрын

are you from malaya? just curious

@sususegar 2 жыл бұрын

@@erok2038 yes i am. can play football/futsal for days but never sepak takraw!

@A-Port-In-Any-Storm 2 жыл бұрын

"qing" is pronounced "ching", not "king". just a heads up

@A-Port-In-Any-Storm 2 жыл бұрын

@@chat-dmt it's 2021. be better

@yungtrashlord 2 жыл бұрын

@@chat-dmt *learry source: i am myself of chinese descent

@Kaspisify 2 жыл бұрын

@@yungtrashlord so basically, whenever a chinese person tries to say "oh really", they are instead saying "O'leary"

@monrow1961 2 жыл бұрын

@@A-Port-In-Any-Storm He say he chinese, you stop pretend be good, you marginirizing chireses voices, is embar-rice-ing! Be better user chirese carendar instead of christian white-supremacist georgian carendar!

@The01Lawliet 2 жыл бұрын

@@A-Port-In-Any-Storm snowflake

@arturlohmus79 2 жыл бұрын

Sun Tzu once said "We have the best football freestylers"

@ComradeOgilvy1984 2 жыл бұрын

"When the enemy perceives your strength is near, a long switch will open up an attack on the far post."

@roboroborangutan 2 жыл бұрын

Ancient Chinese Football Freestylers would make a great band name.

@lonestarr1490 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, straight from the top of my dome As I rock, rock, rock, rock, rock the microphone

@StairwellTheCat 2 жыл бұрын

The three dragons logo needs to be a Tifo shirt!

@thedanielthomas 2 жыл бұрын

This fascinating! I love when Tifo dips into football history.

@usefbmf6731 2 жыл бұрын

3:29 the game gone soft

@FootballDrawn 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Tifo...Just wanted to say that you're the inspiration for me to start a "graphic-based" content. Quite a research on China's link to Football history Thank you ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

@sbtgamil5536 2 жыл бұрын

Massive fan of your videos ❤❤

@jeremybilliards712 2 жыл бұрын

your vids are on 🔥

@carlton4ever152 2 жыл бұрын

Subscribed

@mehrnazkhezri5017 2 жыл бұрын

You just earned a sub from me!😍🔥 very entertaining, fun and informative

@FootballDrawn 2 жыл бұрын

@@sbtgamil5536 Thank you dude :))

@thepinkfuzz818 2 жыл бұрын

Love these historical pieces on the game we all love. Would a look into the history of shin guards be worthwhile? Seems like an often under-looked aspect of the game and it’s equipment.

@PrinceJimi 2 жыл бұрын

now this is some impressive graphics work

@sizwe.amabaso732 2 жыл бұрын

I can't wait for Tifo to analyse South African street football, all about show boating its beautifully frustrating

@freddiecobb7441 2 жыл бұрын

ahhah its so true

@almightysheck 2 жыл бұрын

the sadc community as a whole .

@christianenglish7467 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching Orlando Pirates play when I was living in SA as a kid, one of the player literally stopped in the middle of the game to start doing tricks, he messed it up as got tackled but a few minutes later he tried again.

@jiazemah 2 жыл бұрын

As a Chinese, so grateful to see Tifo introducing the ancient Chinese football! Thank you very much! And 蹴鞠（Cu Ju）is pronouced as "CHU JU" not "Ku Ju"

@adiirawan8913 2 жыл бұрын

they did a fantastic job in this video, except on the pronunciations...

@NIDELLANEUM 2 жыл бұрын

@@adiirawan8913 Well it's usual for them. Sometimes, they end up mispelling or mispronouncing teams

@Twodime4032 Жыл бұрын

Basically footketball

@romanpaladino 2 жыл бұрын

I simply love the artwork in this channel. And these football history videos are definitely some of my favorites.

@LaureusSport 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video! Well researched and concise, great graphic design, and incredibly interesting!

@Gwalltz 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. What a well researched vid, thoroughly enjoyed

@yateendradwivedi3905 2 жыл бұрын

Why does this feels like a history class?😂..nice work tho tifo

@nzomy3056 2 жыл бұрын

the music ,the story telling, the subject itself that's a video to start your day with.

@molybdomancer195 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching a Korean drama set centuries ago where the courtiers were playing football. That’s how I first found out about kuju

@thewatch3124 2 жыл бұрын

@molybdomancer195 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 so when kids go out to play football with their mates, they are in fact not playing football as they don’t have a proper pitch or teams of eleven etc.

@tomsweeney7922 2 жыл бұрын

Please can you put the Three Dragons logo on a shirt as merch?

@happy_labs 2 жыл бұрын

This was a genuinely great and interesting video. Wish I could double-like it

@akamiguelsanchez9985 2 жыл бұрын

Tifo always make my morning dump even better

@JMThought 2 жыл бұрын

These are the best TIFO videos :)

@ajbahlam 2 жыл бұрын

The research work is extraordinary! And nice logo at 05:28

@SilliusSodus 2 жыл бұрын

Allow me to demonstrate the skill of Shaolin!!

@Bagster321 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always! Just a minor point, Qing not pronounced “King”. It’s more pronounced like “Ching” but consult Chinese pronunciation 101 to get a better understanding.

@adomaskn 2 жыл бұрын

the graphics make me drool out of awesomeness

@NanobanaKinako 8 ай бұрын

That 3 Dragon Badge looks badass, it could have been China's badge since dragons are iconic in China.

@charlesfowler4308 2 жыл бұрын

The real question is which CuJu club will sign the legendary CuJu master Ibrahim Sangaré.

@petersugar7726 2 жыл бұрын

The visuals, my god

@tsesunnykailong7855 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for showing this piece of history!

@angel_14061 2 жыл бұрын

Video suggestion: How Nottingham Forrest won twice the European Cup

@jonteau7722 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video. Tifo are cooking right now 🔥

@mdu__Africa 2 жыл бұрын

"The reason why many women do not play football is because they wouldn't wear the same outfit in public" -Sun Tzu

@georgemill8822 2 жыл бұрын

@@MoroccanNationalDebateTeam what do you think?

@andrewjokbalan6267 2 жыл бұрын

They got kung fu football back then , flying guys everywhere

@EMETRL 2 жыл бұрын

i remember seeing a video about a southeast asian tradition where a group of skilled players just basically play keepy-uppy endlessly for the sake of the game. I think it was cambodian but I'm not sure. But there's also a malaysian sport called sepak takraw, which is sort of a hybrid between netball and volleyball, that is played throughout southeast asia. I think it's hard to argue that the similarities found between all these sports is a coincidence; there's too many ways for games like these to have spread through word of mouth due to trade, migration, etc. over hundreds or thousands of years.

@yani674 2 жыл бұрын

Nice art and well explained 👏🎎

@emilianogomez4282 2 жыл бұрын

Great vid could you do something on the Aztec game of football or the Inca version

@struanc95 2 жыл бұрын

Artwork is incredible

@Neoyorchese 2 жыл бұрын

I bet they would have to do the Mayan football, too

@mynameisjudge4386 2 жыл бұрын

This was like reading the manual to a dishwashing machine.

@chesthoIe 2 жыл бұрын

I knew my dad was lying when he said that he and some friends invented hacky sack in 1968.

@heehee4651 2 жыл бұрын

I wish china was a skilful football superpower right now. It would make things so much more interesting at the World Cup

@NanobanaKinako 8 ай бұрын

Sun Tzu once said Er Xi Na bottled the league and Mian Cheng Teng United is terrible compare to their local rival Mian Cheng Teng City.

@Naimira 2 жыл бұрын

I sincerely miss the original Tifo merch-song. I sometimes find myself singing it out loud... Yes, I'm aware that I should seek help.

@SepakanSudut 2 жыл бұрын

i was expecting shaolin soccer...

@star.studded_scorpio 2 жыл бұрын

Finally, one of the first few, woke up early just for this, why thank you Lord 😂😂

@countryballs2005 2 жыл бұрын

I thought the freestyle scenes from "Red Cliff" was fake 😭

@clean0017 2 жыл бұрын

+15 social credit

@kawangkwok5262 2 жыл бұрын

I am the Chinese and I guarantee most Chinese don't even know this.

@Hafris33 2 жыл бұрын

You can get more info in Cuju and ancient kickball of China in The Athletic.

@kwazilucas 2 жыл бұрын

The background music 😂😂🤣

@jinhuakuek5351 2 жыл бұрын

蹴鞠 cu ju sounds closer to choo jee

@DannyboiTO 2 жыл бұрын

It really took off during the Bing Chilling dynasty.

@jjni 2 жыл бұрын

Just a reminder, in Chinese Cuju should pronounce like "Tsuju" instead of "kuju"❤

@tazitdui9306 2 жыл бұрын

This work cup look for Japan and South Korea they have improved massively in last couple of years

@DequanClarke 2 жыл бұрын

That crest is lowkey 🔥🔥🔥🔥👀👀 🐉🐉🐉🇨🇳🇬🇧 1:27

@rishavsingh2390 2 жыл бұрын

Background music 💜

@chnyuk 2 жыл бұрын

这么惊人的材料我除了这儿还能在那儿找到呀，多谢！

@aurahy 2 жыл бұрын

Breif history was great

@Yarblocosifilitico 2 жыл бұрын

If they did play football, they definitely forgot about it x)

@antonioemilio9932 2 жыл бұрын

CU JU is pronounced Zu Qiu (tsu chio) btw. Which is part of what is now known as football in Chinese (Ti Zu Qiu).

@airynod 2 жыл бұрын

Not really. Cuju is different from Zu Qiu. Cu is referring to the character 蹴, means kicking in old Chinese. Ju is referring to the character 鞠, means ball in old Chinese. We don't really use that two characters any more. Zu Qiu is referring to 足球 which means foot and ball.(Ti also means kicking, but is more prefer in modern Chinese)

@shantshafwhaanjulius 2 жыл бұрын

sepak takraw next❤

@jonathanjackson1388 2 жыл бұрын

Football’s coming home…to China

@faarishaquefs265 2 жыл бұрын

This is just awesome. Skora didn't invent freestyle after all

@christhomas9221 2 жыл бұрын

"ratio" - sun tzu

@SisypheanTragedy 2 жыл бұрын

Surely I can't have been the only one that read the title of the video to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

@itshitime 2 жыл бұрын

Always choose the side against the sun- sun tzu

@Darwinek 2 жыл бұрын

What is netball?

@bsdnmd 2 жыл бұрын

So heres a thing we need to talk about.. what do US Mens National Team players of MLS do euen they have no playoffs?

@UrAvgGamer 2 жыл бұрын

5:05 qing is pronounced ching not king

@abdojabboulieh6605 2 жыл бұрын

this is so Cool

@kieronfletcher-3044 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah have that f2 freestylers

@riffmeister101 2 жыл бұрын

A sacrifice for the Algorithms

@tangbein 2 жыл бұрын

Ancient Chinese Football Historians say yes.

@eeritkamatuka8065 2 жыл бұрын

talk more about the true footballers from ancient Africa

@patrickscottwalsh 2 жыл бұрын

its coming home

@thewatch3124 2 жыл бұрын

@patrickscottwalsh 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 it was a joke

@brian4811 2 жыл бұрын

Goin to tell every English person I meet that the Chinese invented football now

@thewatch3124 2 жыл бұрын

@JohnDoe-dd8lb 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 i hope this is a copypasta and you didn't type this all out LMAO

@nooftaheri3502 2 жыл бұрын

This video was brought to you by the Great Imperial Huaxia Football Federation.

@likyardianto3614 2 жыл бұрын

is it called kung futball thou ?

@holunho0710 2 жыл бұрын

Chinese Ronaldinho XD

@emekaamadi8699 2 жыл бұрын

I think you mean shoalin soccer

@YueShenDian 2 жыл бұрын

It more like sepak takraw than football.

@yungpep 2 жыл бұрын

LoL this is the ultimate sportswashing by you guys 🤣

@udayarajakrishnan1858 2 жыл бұрын

Has the Chinese team qualified for the world cup even after spending so much money on the domestic league. They haven't qualified for the last world cup. Looks like this year as well they will do the same. 😂😂😂

@icandothisallday986 2 жыл бұрын

Ibra-ching Sangare

@CmDrRaBb 2 жыл бұрын

At least this rudimentary early version of football did not result in losers having their hearts ripped out for ritual sacrifice

@thewatch3124 2 жыл бұрын

Wrong. This is cuju, not football. Football is an English invention my friend.

@aldobonaso3481 2 жыл бұрын

@@thewatch3124 instead of wasting time getting bent out of shape because somebody suggested you aren't as important as you thought you were...maybe you should try getting better at the sport you claim to have invented, perhaps then you could win something within the next century? But probably not...

@klausbrinck2137 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, was nothing like modern football... ;-)

@niharg2011 2 жыл бұрын

Wait so what I saw in Super Strikas at like 10-11 years of age was actually right and not some BS when those Players go to China and there they practice freestyling/foot volleyball 😭

@theycallmekitkat4610 2 жыл бұрын

Cheremy Xinch

@coquio 2 жыл бұрын

Mayans also played ball.

@KinnyRiddle 2 жыл бұрын

The standard pinyin romanization of Chinese words have some unique rules which non-Chinese speakers might end up mispronouncing. "Cuju" is pronounced "Choo-Joo", the letter c here is similar to how Eastern Europeans pronounce the letter "c". And the final imperial dynasty, the Qing, is pronounced "Ch'ing", the Q used in Chinese pinyin system is read as "Ch".