Japan Soccer

A strange little side quest

The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Japan Soccer is anything but tiny. Association football's first unified Laws of the Game were drawn up in London in 1863. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.