As the AFC Women's Cup nears, let's find out when women began playing the sport and the misconceptions around football and soccer.
Pinoy Trivia Tuesdays is a weekly segment aired on the SBS Filipino radio program featuring interesting facts and tidbits about anything and everything.
Highlights
- Women started playing a football-like sport in ancient China called cuju 200 years before Christ was born.
- Australia's women team 'Matilda' got its name from a 19th-century folk song 'Waltzing Matilda'.
- The term soccer came from a nickname Oxford students gave the 'association' football to differentiate it from 'rugger' football or rugby.