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 ...

We all know the football we watch and discuss and support today. However, the emergence of the modern rules of the game happened relatively recently (in the late 1800s). However, leading up to this ...

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 ...

The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is underway, with billions of people across the globe tuning in to watch the world's most popular sporting spectacle. So what are the origins of soccer—a sport which ...

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 ...

Those involved in the ancient form of soccer known as Cuju launched a bid for the game to be recognized as part of the world's intangible heritage on Tuesday in Linzi District, east China's Shandong ...

When England hosted the European Championship 20 years ago, the anthem of the home team - also a number one single - had the catchy chorus "It's coming home… football's coming home." But China can ...

A China-Qatar Youth Soccer Exchange and Experience Activity was held at the FIFA Fan Festival inside Al Bidda Park in Doha, Qatar on Monday morning, to enhance the friendship between the two countries ...

One month after the Germanic victory at the 2014 World Cup, the topic of soccer has mostly fallen off the headlines in America (with the exception of Qatar’s 2022 slave-labor scandal), and yet in ...

Zibo Cuju investor He Shihua has returned to the pitch for his side, making his third appearance of the season for the China League One side. Once again, the 35-year-old came off the bench as the game ...