Soccer was invented by the British to pacify the natives. They didn’t want the third world playing violent team sports because it would teach them useful battlefield skills. Soccer teaches how to throw down arms and run for their life.
Soccer teaches
Tactics, Strategy, Logistics
Training and Endurance
Fortitude, Initiative, Team Building
Sounds like great training for a future army
Back to my coffee
That’s funny.
Seriously though, there are those who say that the German three person passing game is a holdover from Rommel’s tank tactics.