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You mean Association Football? No. It was codified in 1863. Early forms of town/medieval football that the modern codes are descended from were more like Rugby, with handling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Shrovetide_Football
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_football
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This is a very valid comparison. Hundred years ago, rugby was mainly popular in the 3 Home nations (England, Wales, Scotland) + Ireland and France, and the down under countries (Australia, NZ, South Africa). The scene hasn't changed significantly since then. There is still a huge gap with the second league (Romania, Japan, Georgia, Italy, Tonga, and some other minor players). Only Argentina has managed to acquire an in-between status of their own, they are able to scare major national teams at any time.
Same for the French language. Wherever it's firmly rooted it is can't be displaced. But it's virtually unable to gain new ground.
Another parallel: the rules of football (soccer) can be summarized on a single sheet of paper. In Rugby Union the book of rules (all of them being carefully counter-intuitive) takes a whole library. Compare with an English and a French grammar book...
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Football is to Rugby what English language is to Russian language sounds even better
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Happened in Spain too. Until 80s it was the French the language Spaniards studied in the school. Then English replaced it.
You dont need to be a genuine global power at all, look Arabic.
How not, if Spanish is even more spoken (I could not care less about being the most studied wherever, wtf)?
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in Romania that was the case until very late, until some 15-20 years ago schools had French as default foreign language, probably also because of the large amount of French teachers inherited from communism. I've studied French in school from 2nd to 12th grade, while English only from 6th or 7th to 12th. I remember parents incrersingly asking schools to switch to English some 20 years ago, as French was already a dead language for trade, jobs, whatever.
Romanian rugby is strongly linked to France, 99% of the players that played abroad played in France.
I am a big fan of rugby, my favourite sport as a kid, though I love football as well, and played it all my childhood/teen years.
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