It's certainly true that people have been playing ball games for thousands of years like the ancient Chinese game of kuju or the Japanese variation called kamari, which was like a soccer meets hacky sack.

当然，人们玩球类运动已经有几千年的历史了，比如中国古代的蹴鞠游戏或日本的踢毽子，就是足球和沙包的碰撞。