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Just Curious 12:38 - Sep 1 with 4011 viewspeejaybee

Where did the word Soccer come from.

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Just Curious on 12:39 - Sep 1 with 4002 viewsslmrstid

aSSOCiation Football
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Just Curious on 13:32 - Sep 1 with 3868 viewsthompsonridd

Not sure where it's from but I bloody hate it!!!!!
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Just Curious on 13:46 - Sep 1 with 3819 viewsKerryE

This is another one of these words that originate from UK, but when the USA starts using it us brits hate it.

Fall is another one that springs to mind.
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Just Curious on 13:53 - Sep 1 with 3799 viewsCLAREMAN1995

Just Curious on 13:46 - Sep 1 by KerryE

This is another one of these words that originate from UK, but when the USA starts using it us brits hate it.

Fall is another one that springs to mind.


I suspect its the word used to describe this game in most countries around the globe .
Ireland have Gaelic Football so its been called soccer since the begining of time .USA have American Football so its been called soccer since the begining of time etc.
If that makes some posters cringe so be it bigger things to get angry about IMO
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Just Curious on 14:06 - Sep 1 with 3782 viewsSimonJames

Just Curious on 12:39 - Sep 1 by slmrstid

aSSOCiation Football


Yes. Back in the 1880's, so it's said, university types abbreviated rugby football to "rugger" and association football to "soccer".
Eventually, whilst rugby football became known as rugby, association football was simply referred to as football. But by then other countries had already adopted the nickname soccer.

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Just Curious on 14:31 - Sep 1 with 3693 viewsSimplyNico

I listened to Price of Football a while ago and they had Stefan Szymanski, professor of sports economics at the University of Michigan on (he is a Brit and wrote the book Soccernomics with Simon Kuper, well worth a read). He wrote this on it -

https://time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/
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Just Curious on 15:10 - Sep 1 with 3628 viewsBoston

Just Curious on 13:53 - Sep 1 by CLAREMAN1995

I suspect its the word used to describe this game in most countries around the globe .
Ireland have Gaelic Football so its been called soccer since the begining of time .USA have American Football so its been called soccer since the begining of time etc.
If that makes some posters cringe so be it bigger things to get angry about IMO


Aussie Football.

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Just Curious on 15:15 - Sep 1 with 3616 viewsBoston

S'funny, lots of terms, measurements etc used in the US are from colonial times. It was Britain that started mucking about changing things.

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Just Curious on 16:07 - Sep 1 with 3518 viewskensalriser

Just Curious on 15:15 - Sep 1 by Boston

S'funny, lots of terms, measurements etc used in the US are from colonial times. It was Britain that started mucking about changing things.


It often happens that emigrant communities become fossilised in their ways and culture. Explains quite a lot about the US!

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Just Curious on 16:09 - Sep 1 with 3513 viewsMrSheen

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Just Curious on 17:33 - Sep 1 with 3401 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Soccer was used in England to describe footy much more recently as recently as the 70's. Re-reading old Rangers match reports on RetroQPR is surprising in that way.

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Just Curious on 18:04 - Sep 1 with 3350 viewsCiderwithRsie

Just Curious on 17:33 - Sep 1 by BrianMcCarthy

Soccer was used in England to describe footy much more recently as recently as the 70's. Re-reading old Rangers match reports on RetroQPR is surprising in that way.


Not to mention "slamming the leather past the custodian from fifteen yards out".

Which I believe is illegal in several US states.
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Just Curious on 22:28 - Sep 1 with 3159 viewsdodge_stoke_r

Its football . End of. Or it would be FISA and EUSA and not FIFA and UEFA!
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Just Curious on 22:42 - Sep 1 with 3134 viewsdistortR

Just Curious on 18:04 - Sep 1 by CiderwithRsie

Not to mention "slamming the leather past the custodian from fifteen yards out".

Which I believe is illegal in several US states.


And Preston,curiously.
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Just Curious on 22:49 - Sep 1 with 3116 viewsMatch82

I believe it's a clerical error when registering the sport in the USA. When asked what the name was going to be the British ambassador was multitasking and fidgeting with his desk. Unfortunately he shared an office with a man of poor hygiene and the previous day that man had removed his footwear in order to bite his toenails and one of the socks had ended up in the drawer with which the ambassador was now fidgeting.

Hence the ambassadors response: "Sock, ugh"

By coincidence the same ambassador had been in charge of registering another sport around the same time and had again been distracted, this time by a bee landing on a rug in the office.

Hope this helps.
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Just Curious on 23:24 - Sep 1 with 3064 viewscharmr

I have a 1969 soccer stars sticker album.

Here in the US it’s always called soccer yet many Major soccer league teams have FC in their name, NYFC, Toronto FC, Charlotte FC, Chicago Fire FC for example. Also some teams have SC in their name such as Nashville SC and Orlando City SC.

Go figure
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