Soccer arrived in county in 1895
As the book closes on the second World Cup tournament held in the United States over the next few days it gives the nation a moment to reflect on how the sport has come along even if that history is sometimes not clear or never discussed at all. Here in Columbiana County the sport we know as soccer emerged in 1895 with the birth of the first known organized soccer club called the Rovers Association Football Club in East Liverpool. Pottery workers with links to Great Britain, where soccer's rules were established, drove this trend. The club elected its officers on Nov. 18, 1895 although ...
