Why is football called soccer in the US? And why is Ameriacn football called football?
I guess that the origin of the name 'Soccer' comes from the words 'Association Football'. This goes back to the mid 19th century or so when the rules of many ball games were being formulated - rugby football and tennis are some. The story goes that a group of Public (ie private!) Schools in England got together to draw up standard set of rules for the age old game of two teams kicking a round ball. This group formed an 'Association' of schools - hence the name 'Association Football'.
Didg is right. According to Wikipedia :
The term soccer first appeared in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of Association football, often credited to Charles Wreford-Brown.
I'm with Didg and shimon.
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America is stupid for not calling football by its proper name. If you're American, call it football, no matter what the media tells you
You know, good question. I've been wondering about that myself. I think America is really just a non-conformist. While the rest of the world uses kilometers to measure distance, America uses Miles. And when the rest of the world uses football, America decides to use soccer. Go figure.
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