On July 15, 2004, Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, formally announced to the world that soccer originates in Zibo, Shandong province, China. While maybe few people know that this sport is called Cuju ...
Emperors Taizu and Taizong, with Prime Minister Zhao Pu and other ministers, playing Cuju, by Qian Xuan (ca.1300). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For centuries in China, men and women ...
At the Al Bidda Park in Doha, Qatar, some Chinese people wearing traditional Chinese clothing demonstrate the tricks and skills of the ancient sport known as cuju, the prototype of modern football ...
A man performs cuju on May 15 at the Linzi Football Museum in Zibo, East China's Shandong Province. Photo: AFP Images of a beaming FIFA President Sepp Blatter and a small blue certificate in the East ...