But in China for well over 2,000 years, they have played the game of "kickball" - cuju, pronounced tsoo-joo.Today spelled zuqiu, it's still the word used for football.. The heyday of Chinese ...

China's Xi Jinping loves football so much he's put it on the national curriculum ... citing records from the 3rd century BC of a sport involving a hair-filled leather kickball.

But in China for well over 2,000 years, they have played the game of "kickball" - cuju, pronounced tsoo-joo.Today spelled zuqiu, it's still the word used for football.. The heyday of Chinese ...